THE truck left embedded in the front of a couple’s home was successfully removed from the property yesterday afternoon (March 11).

A tipper truck had hit Clyde and Sonia Stephenson’s home in Upper Elmers End Road, Beckenham, on Monday night (March 9) after previously crashing off the road into three parked cars.

At around 1pm yesterday, workman managed to pull the truck out of the couple’s front room and back out of their garden.

Props were then used to secure the damaged bricks and mortar.

After the crash Mr Stephenson, who has lived in the house with his wife for 21 years, told of “heavenly intervention” preventing anyone getting seriously hurt.

He said: “I was walking down the road to my front door when the accident happened.

“I didn’t see anything because it was dark, but if I had got off at my usual bus stop I would have ended up in the middle of it all.

“Just moments before the accident, my wife was on her way to open the front door to look for me when she was called back by our granddaughter.”

He added: “She would have been at the front door when the truck hit if she didn’t go back.”

The crash broke a fence, smashed windows and damaged the front wall of the house.

It is understood workman will now begin to rebuild the insured property while Mr and Mrs Stephenson stay with relatives.