A family is demanding more road-safety measures after a car smashed into their garden wall.

Furious David Kaye said his "blood ran cold" when he realised his children could have been out in the garden as a car travelling down Keighley Road in Harden crashed into the historic wall which runs along the St Ives estate.

"It's a miracle our guinea pigs survived because the hutch was absolutely flattened by rubble," he said.

"My children could have been under it too if they had been out feeding them."

The Kaye family, who live in St Ives Lodge House on the edge of the estate, were woken just after 8am on Saturday by an "enormous" bang.

When they rushed outside they saw a car had smashed into their wall then bounced back into the middle of the road.

The driver was not seriously hurt but had to be treated for whiplash injuries at Bradford Royal Infirmary.

Mr Kaye, 48, a joiner, said Saturday's incident was the third time in three years that a car had collided with the same chunk of wall. "The first car ended up on top of my greenhouse, the second one ended up stuck halfway through the wall and this crashed and then bounced back into the middle of the road," he said. "It was a write-off, just like the wall. Somehow the drivers have all managed to walk away, but I can't. I have to pay out for the repair of the wall - I'm keeping the local dry-stone waller in business."

Mr Kaye said he had been lobbying Bradford Council for better road safety measures over the past few years but his campaigning had only achieved chevron warnings. "We want speed cameras but we've been told two people need to die before that's considered," he said. "Drivers come down the hill far too fast. There's an adverse camber that makes it even more dangerous. There have been countless other accidents further along the wall, there's always holes appearing.

"I've asked for speed bumps, crash barriers and rumble strips but I've been told they would be too dangerous for drivers. Never mind the drivers, we are seriously worried that next time a car crashes here it's going to be our family who are hurt."

Bradford Council's principal engineer, Phil Sawley, said: "We have previously carried out work on Keighley Road following a spate of incidents a couple of years ago.

"We erected signs warning drivers they were approaching sharp bends, put chevron boards on the bends and built a footway and kerb in a bid to slow cars down. As a result of these measures, the number of incidents has been significantly reduced on the road.

"Signs will be erected within the next few weeks warning drivers that a 30mph speed limit is going to be introduced on the road.

"However, we will again liaise with the police over the problems at this location."

Coun Robin Owens (Cons, Harden) said: "A lot of work has been done to improve that stretch. Since the chevrons went up I'd say accidents have simmered down."