A MAN has “thanked God” he was working when a car ploughed into the side of his cottage leaving him homeless and three people injured.

Paul Davies was away working in Cardiff as a bus driver when a blue Citroën C3 careered off the road and smashed through the living room of his cottage in Chancery, near Aberystwyth, on the A487 at just after 2am on Friday, 15 July.

The car ploughed through the wall where Mr Davies would have been sitting “watching television with a beer” if he had been home.

Mr Davies returned from work on Friday afternoon and the sight of the extensive damage to his home, which will take months to repair, left him in a “state of shock” and “shedding a few tears”.

“What I saw when I pulled up was frankly unbelievable and I did shed a few tears,” Mr Davies, who has lived at Glenview since 2001, told the Cambrian News.

“I can’t believe what has happened. I just thank God that I was working, otherwise I would have been, at the very least, in the hospital.

“Where the car came in, it hit the back of the armchair I would have been sitting in.”

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