An Oxford woman said it was a miracle no one was killed after a car careered off the road and shunted her car into her house.

Christina Bayat, of Leiden Road, Wood Farm, was woken by what she thought was a bomb going off at 2am on Monday - but it was a Ford Fusion ploughing into her Peugeot 306 and smashing it into her front wall.

The driver was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital with minor injuries.

Ms Bayat, 52, said: "I ran to look out of the window and couldn't believe what I was seeing. It looked like the car had come straight out of the top of the road opposite and instead of turning just drove straight up my driveway into my car.

"Had this happened at a busier time of the day someone would have been killed. There are always people - children and the elderly - walking along the street outside my house during the day."

Ms Bayat, a secretary at the John Radcliffe, believes the junction of Three Fields Road, opposite her home, is dangerous, and some form of traffic calming is needed along the road.

Her car is a write-off and parts of the front of the house will have to be rebuilt.

Ms Bayat said Three Fields Road was often used by motorists as a rat-run from The Slade.

She added: "Repairs to the house are the least of my problems.

"I saved for a long time to buy my car and I know I will get next to nothing for it on the insurance - all through no fault of my own."