Car nearly hits house after pile-up

A car ploughed through a garden fence and ended up just feet from a farmhouse after a collision on a busy country lane in South Staffordshire.

The roof had to be cut off a silver Vauxhall Astra to free its driver after the car collided with the fence in front of a home on Blackhalve Lane, Essington.

Staffordshire police today said three cars had been involved in a collision on the busy road.

Two people were taken to Wolverhampton's New Cross Hospital but it is believed nobody was seriously injured.

Mother-of-three Lisa Lee, who lives in the farmhouse attached to Oakley Farm, in Blackhalve Lane, was in her back garden when she heard the smash at around 3.50pm yesterday.

The 32-year-old hairdresser, who lives with her farmer husband James, said: "I was in the garden when I just heard an almighty bang and I ran through to the front of the house and there was an Astra in my front garden.

"It was just sitting in my fence.

"It is a really busy lane and there have been lots of accidents along here before.

"The scary thing is the car ended up around six feet from the window of the house.

It has completely taken the fence down." She added: "We had some really big concrete posts put in there around seven or eight years ago after something similar happened.

"The emergency services said to us if it wasn't for these concrete posts, the car would have come through into the house."

Blackhalve Lane was closed from its junction with Wood End Road to its junction with High Hill causing some traffic to build up before it was reopened at around 5pm.

Police today said the other cars involved were a Renault Megane and an Isuzu Trooper.

Fire crews from Cannock and Willenhall attended the scene of the accident.