Colchester woman avoided car crash after getting up to change TV channel

A woman said her life was saved after she got up to change channel to I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! moments before a car crashed into her home.

Jess Law feared she could have been killed if she had not moved from one end of a sofa to the other to watch the ITV show last Saturday.

"I'm very lucky that I walked away... pretty much unscathed," she said.

Essex Police arrived at the home in Colchester at 22:30GMT and arrested a man, 25, on suspicion of drink driving.

Ms Law said the accident at her Harwich Road house happened just a few minutes after she moved position - away from the wall - to change the TV channel to watch the popular program on a streaming catch up.

She said the moment of impact - which caused the front room window to shatter - was "like a bomb had gone off".

"There were probably about 10 or 12 bricks from our [garden] wall that flew straight through the window.

"I'm very, very lucky that I walked away from it, pretty much unscathed," she said.

Ms Law believed if had not moved her seating position, she could have died in the crash.

She was left with cuts around her eyes from the broken window and bruises on her head and leg.

"I've never been so shocked in my life.

"I could barely speak, I was completely hysterical," she added.

Ms Law and her partner are still living at the property but have had to board-up the smashed window.

Essex Police confirmed the arrested driver of the small grey car has been released on bail while inquiries continue.

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