A MOTHER has called for highways chiefs to take action after a car crashed into her house for the THIRD time in six years.

Joanne Angus had picked up her seven-year-old son from school and was inside her house in Tetbury Drive, Breightmet, when a Ford Focus hit a kerb and smashed into her garage.

Emergency services were called yesterday just before 4pm – and the 55-year-old driver and a passenger escaped with minor injuries.

The building inspector was also called to ensure the building was safe for the Mrs Angus and her family to stay in.

Mrs Angus said: “This is the third time in six years. I was upstairs and heard the bang, I knew immediately what it was – you never forgot a noise like that.”

In the past, cars have crashed straight into the living room and into her parked car.

Now Mrs Angus, who has been left devastated by the latest incident, is calling for traffic calming measures to make the roads around her home safer.

She is backed by neighbours who are demanding Bolton Council take urgent action and are to organise a co-ordinated campaign. Mrs Angus said: “If nothing is done, someone will be killed. I won’t let my son play out in the front garden.I have had enough.”

A police spokesman said that no arrests have been made, and said those in the car suffered minor injuries.

Fire crew manage Andy Krinks said: “We isolated the gas and electricity supply before disabling the car battery. We called the building inspector.”

Ward councillor John Byrne was also at the scene and said he would raise the issue with the highways team. He said: “We have tried to resolve this, but the idea of bollards couldn’t work because the pavement is too narrow.

“We are introducing a 20mph speed limit and I will speak to the highways department and Cllr Nick Peel and get something in place.”