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Peter Francis surveys the scene after a car landed in the back garden of his Lyle Road home.
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The vehicle careered off Towers Road in the early hours of Saturday morning, narrowly missing an electricity substation.
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Its driver was amazingly able to walk away from the crash with only minor injuries.
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Deep welts were left in the ground where the car skidded along.
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The vehicle struck a lamppost, garden wall, substation perimeter fence and landing on top of a parked Ford Fiesta. adjacent to the hut on the left.
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The Advertiser's photo of the fenced-off electricity substation shows just how close the car came to causing a catastrophe.
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Lyle Road resident Stewart Gibb described the sound of the car crash as "like a bomb going off".
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His neighbour, Lauren Henderson, sent the Advertiser this picture of the immediate aftermath of the crash.
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