TWO young teenage girls had a lucky escape when a car just missed them before crashing down into a garden of a bungalow at Rockwell Green, Wellington.

The girls, who were walking home, were badly shaken but not hurt.

Shocked couple Robin Marke, 69, and his wife Debbie, 50, were watching television in Orchard Close last Wednesday evening when they heard a ‘bang’.

“I looked out and could see a car in my back garden on its side by our summer house,” said Robin, a retired lorry driver at Westleigh Quarry and a keen gardener.

“I ran to help the occupants out of the car while Debbie phoned the police.

“There were two young men and both left the scene before the police arrived. One left by crossing a couple of neighbours’ gardens while

the other climbed back through

the gap left by the car. I think

one of them may have hurt his side.”

The car, an Audi, came off the road at the railway bridge before plunging into the garden.

This is the second time a car has paid a visit to the couple’s bungalow. Four years ago another vehicle ended up hanging over the hedge above the garden.

And ten years ago a car hit the big tree on the edge of their garden.

n Residents at Orchard Close think it is only a matter of time before someone is injured

They now want to pursue the installation of a crash barrier at the site and some of them met the Mayor of Wellington Janet Lloyd yesterday.