My car flipped upside down and was written off after I hit a huge pothole – I’m lucky to be alive
A MUM collecting her son was left upside down inside her wrecked motor in a field after she hit a huge pothole.
Alisha Howe, 23, flipped off a bend in her Ford Focus Zetec and had to fight her way out of the smashed car before crawling away.
The family support worker was taken to hospital with concussion, whiplash, swelling and severe bruising after a passerby called an ambulance.
Mum-of-one Alisha had been to the shops and hit the 5in-deep crater on a narrow country road on her way to collect her son from a school club.
She told The Sun: “I’m lucky to be alive. It was so scary. I was driving along and felt the front of the car suddenly drop into a big hole.
“I lost control, crashed through a fence and went flying through the air.
“The next thing I knew I was upside down in the field. If it had happened just five minutes later my little boy would’ve been involved, which is horrible to think about.”
Alisha was doing 40mph on an A-road outside Daventry, Northants, on April 14.
She added: “My accident was the worst thing I have ever been through.
“The car was a write-off and I was left with bruises all over my arms and legs.
“The country is overrun with potholes and nobody seems to be sorting them out. They are a danger to everybody who gets behind the wheel.”
West Northamptonshire Council filled the hole.
It said people should report the craters and it “will then determine the most appropriate course of action in line with our scheduled programme.”
