A PENSIONER has likened a car smashing into his Bridgwater home in the early hours to the chilling sound of a Second World War flying bomb.

Keith McMahon, 76, was woken at 4am on Sunday, February 6 by an almighty explosion.

He headed downstairs into the kitchen and saw the car outside the window and rubble and bricks everywhere.

The vehicle had come off the road and down an embankment before crashing into the front of Keith and wife Pauline’s home in usually sleepy Quantock Road.

He told the Mercury this week: “I grew up during the war and clearly remember the sound of the German Doodlebugs going off a few hundred yards away and that’s what it sounded like.

“It was frightening; I had been in the kitchen 15 minutes before it happened so I was really lucky.

“The damage is awful. The brickwork is all bowed in, the wall is badly cracked, and the kitchen work surface is all broken.

“We are waiting for the repairs to be carried out on the insurance but we will have to move out when they are and you don’t need that sort of upheaval at our age.”

Keith said he and his wife have been left very upset and shaken by their ordeal but praised police and recovery crews for their help in the aftermath.

*Joshua Griffen, 22, was charged with failing to provide a specimen for analysis and using a vehicle without insurance and is due to appear at Sedgemoor Magistrates’ Court on March 1.