A WAGON smashed through a fence and careered into a pretty North Yorkshire garden for the second time in five years.

The driver escaped serious injury when a wooden fence post pierced the front windscreen and narrowly missed his face.

His three-and-a-half-ton Ford box van which had been in collision with a Citroen ZX containing a mother and baby came to a halt perched on top of an ornamental rockery. It is the second time a wagon has skidded into the garden, which is owned by Jean Close, the clerk of Moor Monkton parish council.

The accident, on the A59 at the Moor Monkton crossroads, brought fresh calls today for safety improvements to the stretch of road, which has seen a number of similar crashes in recent years.

Mrs Close, who is retired, said: "I was in the kitchen and I saw the box van hurtling towards my garden. It ran down the length of the fence, smashing it to bits, and then climbed on to the rockery.

"I thought, 'Oh my God, not again' I just could not believe my eyes."

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