Regulars at a local pub in Warwickshire were given the shock of their lives when an unexpected entrance was made by a runaway Mercedes – straight though the front wall.
Incredibly, nobody was seriously injured despite the C180 estate punching a clean hole through the brickwork and narrowly missing a group playing dominoes at a table. Drinkers were forced to dive for cover as plates and pint glasses were sent clattering to the floor.
The driver, a man in his 80s, was taken to Warwick hospital as a precaution while two other elderly gentlemen were treated at the scene for minor injuries.
A novelist and regular at the pub, Kay Page, 51, managed to capture images of the carnage on her mobile phone.
Speaking to the Daily mail, she said: "We were sat in the pub and heard an enormous bang and the clattering of plates and glasses as the bench and the table's contents where hit and moved about three feet into the pub area.
"People were sat on the bench outside the window and had to jump clear."
Pub landlady Katie Keogh-Bywater, 34, explained how she believed the driver suffered some kind of blackout or episode at the wheel.
"I wasn't in the pub at the time of the crash, although I got there soon after to see what had happened” she said.
"I was just so relieved that no one had been hurt, I was expecting to see blood everywhere but luckily that wasn't the case.
"We are on a corner but nothing like this has happened before, the driver hit three bollards before he hit the pub which gave people a chance to see him coming."
"The driver wasn't speeding, he told me he felt dizzy and then couldn't remember what happened after that, so he must have blacked out."
The Stags Head in Wellesbourne is now open for business again, with a large, blue tarpaulin currently covering the large hole.
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