A COUPLE whose Stourport home was hit by a car say they would have been killed if the crash had happened just 10 minutes earlier.

Lee and Jacqui Bryan's house in Ribbesford Drive suffered around £20,000 worth of damage when a red Mitsubishi Evo crashed into a downstairs bedroom, belonging to a six-year-old boy with disabilities, at around 3pm on Saturday (January 19).

Jacqui told The Shuttle: "I heard this enormous crash - it shook the whole house. I ran outside thinking there had been an accident in the road and people in the park opposite were all staring at me.

"I turned around and the the car had knocked the whole side of the house out. There was smoke coming out.

"Lee was upstairs so he thought I was in there. He thought I was dead."

Jacqui said the extension, which is made up of a downstairs bedroom and wetroom for the young boy, who is in a wheelchair, is in "constant use".

"He naps throughout the day and I'm always in and out," she said. "We'd both been in there just 10 minutes before the crash.

Kidderminster Shuttle:

"If it had happened a few minutes earlier we'd both have been killed on impact. Most of the bedroom was reduced to rubble and his bed is completely mangled from being slammed up against the wall.

"It really is a miracle that we weren't injured."

The driver of the car, a man in his 20s, remains in a serious condition in hospital. A female passenger, aged in her 20s, was also taken to hospital for treatment.

Police are encouraging anyone who witnessed the crash to call 101, quoting incident number 372s.