A woman had a lucky escape after her car came off the road narrowly missing a telegraph pole.

The Ford Focus crashed into a litter bin and notice board outside the Aldham Village Hall at about 1.40pm yesterday afternoon.

The driver escaped uninjured but her car could not be driven and had to be recovered.

Anne Fulcher, a member of the hall’s fundraising team, arrived at the scene about ten minutes after the crash.

She said: “The woman was very lucky. I don’t know how she got through the gap.”