A WOMAN arrived back from abroad to find an out-of-control car had smashed through her garden wall just minutes before she returned.

Brenda Taylor said it was the fifth time a vehicle had ploughed into the detached home since she and her husband, Alan, bought the house new 38 years ago.

Other accidents have involved a burning stolen car, a runaway JCB digger and a motorbike.

Mr Taylor died a day before his 75th birthday four months ago and Mrs Taylor was returning from their holiday home in Spain when she discovered a silver Vauxhall Corsa in her garden, on the corner of Shann Lane and Westway in Keighley, surrounded by police and emergency services.

"I'd been away sorting out paperwork in Spain following my husband's death and when I arrived home at 10.30ish and saw what was going on I just said,'Oh no, not again!' and burst into tears," said grandmother Mrs Taylor, a former a library assistant in Keighley.

"This is the fifth time someone has come crashing through the wall and this time it sent bricks flying which have also damaged my side door.

"One time people had stolen a car and then set it on fire at the top of the hill to roll down until it hit us.

"Another time a huge JCB rolled down and nicked the side of the house.

"A motorbike hit the side once and we had an Austin Maxi hit the front of the house after the driver pressed the accelerator instead of the brake."

The young driver of the Corsa and his two passengers were unhurt in Sunday night's crash, said Mrs Taylor, 73.

"The young lad who had been driving just looked so shaken and said to me, 'I'm so sorry'.

"I told him I knew it was an accident. He looked so upset I just wanted to give him a hug."

Mrs Taylor said she hoped a barrier would now be put on the corner of Westway and steep Shann Lane.

"It could have been so much worse, I could have been getting out of my daughter-in-law's car just as it happened.

"At least no-one was killed," she said.

Keighley West councillor Brian Morris (Ukip) said Shann Lane was dangerous road.

"I'd like to see illuminated signs to get people to slow down and I'd totally support something like concrete balls to protect that junction," he Morris said.

A police spokesman said the 22-year-old driver had been breathalysed and tested negative for alcohol.

A fire spokesman said all three people were out of the car when firefighters arrived and given precautionary checks by paramedics.