Pictures show a bed which a child had just minutes before been sleeping in, balanced on top of a tractor
Jumad Chowehuro told the ECHO how his son was asleep in bed moments before it ended up on the roof of a tractor(Image: Megan Banner)
A dad has described the horrific moment a tractor ploughed through his home and into his son’s bedroom. Emergency services were called to the scene on A51 Vicars Cross Road in Chester this morning (Tuesday, April 1) after a tractor smashed through the front of two houses following a crash with a Mercedes car at around 6.36am.
The tractor, which is understood to have contained farm slurry, smashed into two houses opposite a Shell garage on Vicars Cross Road, closing the road for serval hours.
Pictures show the house fronts completely destroyed and a bed, which a child had been sleeping in just moments before, balanced on top of the tractor with children’s teddies seen inside.
Rubble surrounded the tractor and dozens of firefighters worked at removing the trailer and tractor from the building for a number of hours. A cat was also reportedly rescued near to the scene by fire crews.
Dad, Jumad Chowehuro, 60, who has lived in one of the destroyed houses for 40 years, told the ECHO how his son had woken up for school moments before his bed ended up on top of the tractor after it ploughed through his bedroom wall. His son was miraculously not injured in the incident.
Jumad said: “This is my house. I don’t know what happened, it was about 6.30am, I was in the back and it was noisy so I got up and came through here and looked to see what the noise was and a car was coming towards our house.
The scene of the crash on the A51 Vicars Cross Road in Chester (Image: Liverpool ECHO)
“My son was asleep in his bed [shortly before the crash], thankfully he got up just before it happened because he had school. He has not gone to school.“
The dad says his wife has been frightened by the incident. He added: “It’s horrible seeing my house like this, we have lived here for 40 years. My wife is frightened, we have been lucky.“
He claims there have been other crashed on Vicars Cross Road before and one woman, who lives a few doors down from the scene of the incident, told the ECHO how a car previously smashed through a house further up the road.
The tractor and Mercedes crash on the A51 in Chester (Image: Liverpool ECHO)
She said: “It’s not the first time this has happened, a car went into a house once further up the street.” Describing this morning’s incident, the woman, who did not want to be named, added: “I woke up at half six and could hear all the police and fire. I looked out the window and could see them, I thought there had just been a crash.
“Then I came out and saw this – it’s so sad, you feel awful for the families. The houses have been here for years, it’s a shame to see such an old house like that gone. I’d be devastated if it happened to my house, I love my house it makes you feel vulnerable it could have happened to me.
Cheshire Police confirmed there were no reports of any serious injuries, but the drivers of both vehicles have both been taken to the Countess of Chester Hospital as a precautionary measure. The force also confirmed the people living inside the houses have all been accounted for, and are all safe and well.
The road was closed in both directions between Green Lane and the A41 and motorists were urged to avoid the area while recovery work was ongoing. Video footage shows recovery workers removing the tanker and tractor from the wreckage and the damage to the front of the vehicle.
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