Pensioner, 82, recalls moment car ploughed through her brick wall while she was hanging out her washing missing her by INCHES
The elderly woman had been pottering about her garden in east Yorkshire when the Mercedes SUV lost control and nearly knocked her down
A PENSIONER was inches from death when a powerful Mercedes SUV crashed through her brick garden while she was pegging her laundry.
Mary O’Donoghue, 82, only narrowly escaped being hit because seconds before the smash she had only just moved further along the line.
The 82-year-old suffered minor cuts to her leg and shock but was otherwise unhurt.
The unnamed woman driver was uninjured but had to be freed by firefighters after her car was left dangling precariously, Driffield, Yorkshire.
It demolished ten feet of the wall between Mary’s garden and the adjoining Park Surgery GP practice.
Mary said: “I had moved from one side of the washing line to another when I heard this awful noise behind me.
“When I turned around I saw the car hanging over our garden and was in such a state of shock that I didn’t even realise that my leg was bleeding.
“If I hadn’t moved I would have been knocked down by the car."
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The dramatic incident unfolded on the morning April 6 when a black Mercedes mounted the kerb and crashed into the wall.
The vehicle was then left balancing until the fire bridge rescued the woman driver.
Mary’s husband, John said: “It’s only by the grace of God that Mary is still here.
“There now must be a barrier put in place in the car park for our own protection, not that it should need one as you don’t expect this to happen.”
Park Surgery declined to comment.
Humberside Police said there have been no charges in relation to the crash.
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