A YOUNG family were shocked when a tractor’s trailer overturned and smashed into their house and car in Lydbrook, last Thursday,

The eight-tonne trailer came to rest against the front of house at around 11am after overturning across the pavement and spilling its load of wood chippings, smashing over the front wall and wrecking the family’s Nissan car just yards from the Jovial Colliers pub.

Lauren Homer was sitting in the front room with four-week-old Evie and toddler Lilly when the trailer’s debris piled up against the window with a bang.

Jamie Worgan, who was asleep upstairs having worked the night shift for Noble Foods in Clearwell was woken up by the commotion.

He said: “I heard a rumble and felt the house shake before a huge bang."

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