An Oxford woman said it was a miracle no one was killed after a car careered off the road into her drive and shunted her car through the front of 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 home.

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

Ms Bayat, 52, said she couldn't believe what she saw when she looked out of her son's bedroom window.

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

She said: "The noise was so loud. 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. I hate to think what could have happened.

"It was all so distressing to see. My car and part of my home have been destroyed."

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.

She said: "I have lived here for 19 years and it is a wonder there has not been a nasty accident before.

"I am now going to raise this with Oxfordshire County Council. The junction is just not appropriate.

"A lot of times I have held my breath as I've stood and watched some of the dangerous moves drivers do at the junction.

"I think there should be a traffic island installed. If there had been one in place this would never have happened."

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

"Unfortunately there are a lot of people who don't drive sensibly or use the road appropriately," she said.

She must now wait for surveyors to assess how best to repair the front of her house.

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."