A MAN has thanked his lucky stars after a car ploughed into the room where was sleeping and ended up inches from his head.

Andy Roe and his family, from Littlemore, were woken by the ‘almighty bang’ as a car crashed into their living room in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Mr Roe, who was asleep just 3ft away from the front of the house where it happened in Oxford Road, said he woke to find the wreckage just inches from where his head lay.

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He said: “I was woken up, startled by an almighty bang. I thought the cabinet had fallen down and hit me on the head, but I thought [it felt] too heavy.

“Then I thought there had been an explosion. I was just so discombobulated, then I heard the whirring sound of the car and could see the car headlights through the hole in the wall.

“Then it dawned on me.”

Oxford Mail:

The family of three had friends round, including two children, on Saturday night, and shortly after they left Mr Roe’s wife and ten-year-old daughter went to sleep in a back room. Mr Roe fell asleep in the living room, and within five minutes the car crashed through the wall about 12.15am.

He said: “My wife and daughter came into the room in shock, and my daughter said she felt the flat shake.

“The impact of the car fractured the brick work and pushed the table and chairs forwards.

“Luckily there was a pillow between my head and the chair, that probably saved me.

“You can also see a big pile of concrete which was about six or seven inches away from me.

“A policeman said I should buy a lottery ticket as he couldn’t believe I was not dead.”

Oxford Mail:

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Pictures show how the car completely smashed through the front wall of the ground floor flat, having blasted through a neighbours brick wall, front garden, and through Mr Roe’s hedge.

It is thought to have travelled ‘40 to 50ft’ from the road before the impact.

Mr Roe added: “I know it seems unlucky but I have really tried to be positive about it. I am so grateful my friend was not sitting at the table as he was 60 minutes before, and his son who was nearby.

“My daughter usually sleeps in the front bedroom, but thankfully she wasn’t, she was asleep in the back with my wife.

“Something happened to stop me dying. If we do have a guardian angel out there then I definitely played one of my cards that night.”

Police said a 34-year-old man from Oxford was arrested on suspicion of driving when over the alcohol limit and failing to stop after a road accident. He has been released under investigation.