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| Woman dies after car crashes into house in Somerset | Woman dies after car crashes into house in Somerset |
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| A woman has been killed after a vehicle crashed into her house in a Somerset cul-de-sac. | |
| Neighbours ran to help the woman after the vehicle crashed into the living room of her semi-detached home, but say she died instantly beneath the rubble. | |
| The occupants of the vehicle, a man and a woman, have been arrested and are in police custody following the incident in Clevedon on Wednesday evening. | |
| Julie Elson, 57, who lives four doors away from where the crash happened, said: “The lady was on the phone to her great-granddaughter at the time and she heard the bang and came down the road in her nightie because she lives in the area. She was hysterical, screaming. | |
| “She heard the whole thing over the phone, the poor girl. The lady would always speak to you, a true neighbour. | |
| “Everything was manic last night. Everybody is shocked. My eyes have been welling up this morning. I’m so sad. She was still very lively and hadn’t long given up driving.” | |
| Another neighbour, Robert Cornock, 71, was one of the first to enter the house after the crash. He said the woman had lived there for more than 35 years. | |
| Cornock, a painter and decorator, said: “I was cutting the grass in the back garden and heard a terrific bang. Me and my neighbour went in. We called her name, but couldn’t see her at all because she was buried underneath the rubble in the living room. She wouldn’t have known anything about it, it would have been so quick. | |
| “She was a friend of mine; I’d decorate her house and have a cup of tea with her now and then. She worked in a munitions factory in Coventry during the second world war.” | |
| The woman’s next-door neighbour, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “I opened the door to see what this loud crash was and a guy was screaming: ‘Gas get out!’ My daughter was asleep upstairs and I had to go up and drag her out of bed.” | |
| Avon and Somerset police said: “A car collided with a house on Yeolands Drive in Clevedon. Significant damage was caused to the property and tragically a woman inside has died. | Avon and Somerset police said: “A car collided with a house on Yeolands Drive in Clevedon. Significant damage was caused to the property and tragically a woman inside has died. |
| “The woman’s family have been informed and are being provided with all the necessary support.” | |
| The force said neighbours had been evacuated as a precaution due to fears that a gas pipe had been damaged. | |
| “Our response is ongoing and emergency services are likely to be at the scene for some time,” the statement said. | |
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