THE landlady of a Synod Inn pub has spoken of her shock at finding a crashed car buried in the front of the inn in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Jill Evans, who runs the 500-year-old Synod Inn, near New Quay, was awoken by a call from a friend who had come across the crash scene at 3am on Saturday morning.

A couple believed to be in their 30s were in the car, and Mrs Evans remained on the scene for several hours while firefighters cut a female passenger free from the wrecked Astra.

“They had to peel the roof off to get her out of the back window,” she said. “I gather they’re going to be okay, but they are very, very lucky to be alive.”

Mrs Evans added: “This car has come down the road from the direction of Llandysul and gone straight across the T junction directly into my pub.

“The car has taken out the 30mph speed-limit sign. But at the end of the day the pub is only bricks and mortar and can easily be rebuilt – the important thing is that nobody has got themselves killed.

“It could have been so much worse, though. I had customers sitting in that window where the car hit only a few hours earlier.”

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