This car crashed into Claire Clark's Herne Bay garden

by Ed Targett

This is the trail of destruction left behind when two pensioners crashed into a garden.

The women crashed through a wall, smashed into a greenhouse and ploughed into a log cabin before landing their Ford Fiesta in a garden - but walked away unscathed in a miracle escape.

But mother-of-two Claire Clark was left distraught by the incident after the vehicle came flying into her back garden - minutes after her children had finished playing.

The 36-year-old, of Ford Close, Studd Hill, near Herne Bay, said: "I had just taken my son to football when I got a call from my husband. He said 'you better come back. There are police, the ambulance and the fire brigade in our back garden'.

"when i got home there were two little old ladies sitting in the back garden drinking tea – with their car sticking out of the garage wall…” – claire clark

"I thought he might be exaggerating, but when I got home there were two little old ladies sitting in the back garden drinking tea – with their car sticking out of the garage wall. They were alright thankfully, if a bit shaken.

"But I can’t stop thinking that my children could have been playing in the garden there – right where the car came through the wall. It's a miracle nobody was hurt – apart from all my tomato plants."

The crash happened at about 9.20am on Saturday.

Kent Fire and Rescue spokesman Alan Bradford said: "Two fire engines from Herne Bay and Whitstable attended.

"Police and ambulance were also in attendance; one female approximately 80-years-old was assisted from the vehicle by ambulance crew. Our crews left the scene at 9.35am."