10:28am Thursday 4th January 2007
By Corinne McPartland
A FAMILY has been left "devastated" following a car accident which left one vehicle wedged in their front bedroom.
Maureen Kelly was watching television with her family when she heard a "terrible" crash which made the house shake.
The 50-year-old, of Wrotham Road, Gravesend, ran outside saw a car had ploughed into her front bedroom.
The mother-of-three saw a little girl aged around two-years-old and a woman in her 20s get out of the car.
A man had been driving the other vehicle which had been involved in the crash.
Mrs Kelly says she couldn't believe the woman and little girl got out of the smash alive at 6.30pm on December 27.
She said: "I called the emergency services because the car had hit a gas pipe and when I came back the woman and girl had gone but the other man was still outside."
Mrs Kelly, who runs a bed and breakfast from her home with her 51-year-old husband, says she is scared the house will fall down.
She said: "We have propped the house up but there are cracks everywhere."
Mrs Kelly says her daughter almost certainly would have been killed or seriously injured if she had been in the room.
She said: "We were devastated after we saw how much damage did to the room where my nine-year-old daughter sits and does her homework.
"She is still scared to go into that room.
"But luckily nobody was injured and my hamster, which was in the room, was rescued by the fireman and it is fine."
A north Kent police spokesman said: "The driver that hit the house left the scene of the accident.
"We are wanting anyone with any information about it to come forward."
If you have any information about the crash call north Kent police on 01474 565294.
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