A COUPLE who were watching television at home when a car crashed through their front room window said the smash is the fifth in the past 15 months.

Carole Rhead and her partner, Barrie Edwards, were watching TV in the conservatory of his home in Lower Interfields, on Leigh Sinton Road, at 9.30pm on Monday night.

"We just heard a massive boom and assumed there had been a crash on the road outside, which isn't unusual here," Miss Rhead said.

"But when we went in to the front room to look through the window we saw a car literally sticking through the front room window.

"I just sobbed. We didn't know what to do. The bricks from the garden wall were all over our living room, they had damaged a clock with sentimental value and other possessions. If we hadn't been watching TV in the conservatory we would have been killed I'm sure of it."

No one was hurt in the incident but a 68-year-old man failed a roadside breath test and has since been charged with driving a motor vehicle while alcohol level was above the legal limit.

Mr Edwards, who has lived in the house for 45 years, said: "I was in shock, but our kind neighbours have helped us start the clear up. We've had people crash and wipe out the trees outside the house and my garden gate before but I've never had anyone crash through our house. It was scary."

Next door neighbour, David Barrie, has been campaigning to get the speed limit on the road — which was lowered from 60mph to 40mph some years ago — enforced.

He said: "Vehicles were clocked at over 90mph along this winding B road, and we've had cars end up in our hedge, narrowly miss hitting neighbours and crashing in to my cars, leading to them being written off. I heard that before we moved here there was a fatality, but it's only a matter of time before there's another."