Pictures as sports car crashes into Derbyshire home sending boulders smashing through windows

A couple say they are suprised no-one was killed after a sports car ploughed into their garden wall and sent boulders hurtling through their windows.

The red Jaguar F-Type smashed into the wall at around 1.45pm on Saturday and caused around £12,000 of damage.

Derbyshire police, fire crews and paramedics were called to the scene in Oakerthorpe, near Alfreton, and spent several hours clearing the road.

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Tim Lomas, who lives at the house with wife Christine, was at his motorcycle dealership in Clay Cross when he got a call from his neighbour about the crash.

The 61-year-old said: “The stones had smashed the window and gone straight through to the kitchen.

“There’s extensive damage to the kitchen units and the floor. All the windows had gone. There was shattered glass all across the floor. It had taken the edge off the breakfast bar.

“They had to take the neighbour’s wall down as well.”

When the car hit the couple’s wall, in Chesterfield Road, it chipped off large boulders of rock from the stonework and sent them flying through their kitchen windows.

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The crash also left large piles of bricks and rubble outside the property which Mr Lomas said it took the fire service four or five hours to clear.

He said: “The fire brigade was there at the time and they were doing what they needed to do. There were a lot of people standing about and looking.

“The fire brigade were there for a long time – they got a JCB down to clear it.”

Mr Lomas said the man behind the wheel of the sports car was a young driver who ‘didn’t say a lot’.

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He said he hoped his insurance policy would cover them for the damage to the house – which he guessed would cost between £12,000 and £15,000.

It is not thought that anyone was seriously injured.

Mrs Lomas, who is a retired upholstery machinist and was also not home at the time, said the aftermath of the crash was ‘like a bomb’ had gone off.

She said: “We’ve lived her for nearly 25 years and we’ve never had anything like that. We will need new windows – it’s not just the glass, it’s damaged all the frames too.

“It’s a wonder he wasn’t killed – both the air bags had gone off. If a family was walking past at the time it could have killed them.”