Patricia Clark had a lucky escape yesterday morning (Wednesday, November 19) after a car crashed into the side of her home.

She said it was fortunate she was not out in her front garden or walking to her home when a car collided with a coach on Selsey Road, at the junction with Keynor Lane at 8.30am, and spun into her property – Myrtle Cottage.

She wants to warn of the dangers of the road as her home and neighbouring gardens have been hit by passing cars on numerous occasions.

"It needs to be recorded in the Observer because we are just getting so many accidents along here now it is ridiculous," she said.

"If I had been out there in the garden, or walking in with children, I would have been trapped. I am not surprised it has happened at all. It keeps happening along here."

The female driver of the car was taken to St Richard's Hospital in Chichester with a head injury. There were only two people on the coach and neither needed medical treatment.

Mrs Clark said there were plans to build a new road to cope with traffic when they moved to the street in the 1970s but objection from residents in the area scuppered the idea.

She added: "The car could have demolished our house if it had hit really hard. This house has been standing for about 300 years, so it is probably quite solid.

"We do not want to move house – we would just like something done about the road."

She said she is going to order structural engineers to survey the damage to her home.

She added: "The traffic build-up was incredible. If the car had been in the middle of the road it would have been a lot worse.

"It was only about a month ago someone was killed on the road. Accidents happens regularly – this time nobody was injured.

"We just need an alternative road. Having just one road to Selsey – this is going to happen."



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