BMW landed inches from couple's front door

The driver walked away without a scratch, with Ms Doss being told by a paramedic that he had been saved by his airbag.

Several properties along the stretch, near Walton Bridge and just after a sharp bend, have been struck by vehicles in recent years, with one hit three times in six years.

The 56-year-old audio consultant said: "If a car can cause this amount of damage, I dread to think what a heavier vehicle could do - it would take the whole house out."

Mr Atkin and partner Ms Doss were asleep at the time of the impact and Ms Doss, a professional singer who's performed with The Kinks and Bill Wyman, says she has had to move to a bedroom towards the back of the house since the smash.

She said: "I'm still in horrendous shock because it made me realise I was no longer safe in that bed. I feel so vulnerable. The crash sounded like a load of glass smashing and at first I thought it was a recycling lorry. But then I realised it was a Sunday and knew something terrible had happened. When I saw the car in the garden, I just screamed.

"I saw the driver standing in the garden and luckily he was ok. I do feel for the guy but I'm very angry now, looking at the damage done and the emotional state I'm in."

The pair only moved to the area in February and there concern has been magnified after learning from neighbours the latest incident was the fourteenth similar accident on the same stretch of road in the last six years. Their own house was struck three years ago.

Mr Atkin, who has two grown-up children, said: "We are all absolutely furious now. Later on Sunday there was a kids' party a few doors along. It could have been tragic.

"There is something going desperately wrong with this road and I believe it's down to an adverse camber. It slopes the wrong way on the bend and is inviting this sort of accident. Because the bend comes at the end of a long straight, it's possibly the right place to put speed cameras and crash barriers."