A 18-YEAR-OLD girl involved in a crash after a police chase on her birthday says she feared she was going to die.

Roxie Edmonds of Court Farm Road was one of two passengers in a red Peugeot which crashed into a tree outside Watts Farms in East Hall Road, St Mary Cray, at around 2am on Tuesday morning.

She had to be cut from the car by firefighters and was taken to King’s College Hospital with injuries thought to be critical, but has since been discharged.

Miss Edmonds said: “I had been in the Queen’s Head Pub in Chislehurst celebrating my birthday with my friend, but I had not been drinking. The driver came to pick us up, and he had not been drinking either.

“He was taking us home, and he wasn’t speeding or doing anything wrong, and then there was a police car behind us, chasing us, and we didn’t know why because we hadn’t done anything wrong.

“We were speeding when we were being chased but we were scared and we just panicked.

“We went down a country lane and our headlights went out, and we must have hit a tree and then spun over.

“As soon as we hit the tree I went unconscious and the car tipped over.

“I first woke up after the crash when the paramedics were around me in the car.

“I thought I was going to die because I was bleeding from my ear.”

The other passenger managed to free herself from the car and was also taken to King’s College Hospital in London, but has since been discharged.

Miss Edmonds said: “We both have whiplash, cuts and bruises, and we have to have more tests to see if we have any internal bleeding.”

- The driver of the car, a 16-year-old boy, has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving, driving without insurance, driving without a licence and failing to stop for police.

He has been bailed until November 10.