A van and a car skidded through the front garden of a Billericay pub and narrowly missed smashing into the glass conservatory.

Near miss - the aftermath of the accident in which, luckily, the van and the car ended in the pub's front garden but narrowly escaped smashing into the glass conservatory. Picture: ROBIN WOOSEY 86e327

The van driver lost control of his vehicle after a collision in the one-way street outside Quilters pub in London Road. It crashed through a wall, followed by a car.

Pub area manager Gary Stewart said: "It could have been a lot worse. There could have been people walking across the path."

Published Wednesday, March 13, 2002