A WARMINSTER mother-of-two believes she and her children are lucky to be alive after the car they were travelling in flipped over.

Carly Duck was driving her silver Nissan Almera through Sutton Veny with her four-year-old daughter, Maisie, and 13-month-old son, Charlie, when the crash happened last Thursday around 8.45am.

The 27-year-old nursery assistant now wants lorries to be banned from going through the village.

She said: “I was just coming up to Sutton Veny School to drop my daughter off and came to the T-junction and this lorry drove into us.

“The road was narrowing where my car was and I tried to drive into the bush as it was the only place I could go as I knew if the car went under the lorry we’d be crushed.

“The lorry dragged us along for about four seconds before we flipped and people didn’t know if we were alive or not.

“Passers-by had to get my children out of the car before I could get out and speaking with them afterwards they said that lorries shouldn’t be going down there because it’s just too narrow.

“It’s such a small village and there’s not really a main road.”

A 67-year-old man has been reported for careless driving in connection with the incident.

Sutton Veny Parish Council chairman, Stephen Oxlade, believes a weight limit needs to be imposed through the village to stop lorries from passing through.

He said: “We are concerned especially with all these large articulated lorries which are very heavy and are trying to use Sutton Veny as a rat run.

“They have had great difficulty negotiating those corners at the top and bottom of the village.

“We are holding a parish council meeting on October 1 to discuss this and bring it to Wiltshire Council’s attention.”

Mrs Duck added: “I’ve got to go the hospital because my arm has gone black and blue and my back is sore.

“I’m shaken and so are the little ones and I definitely feel lucky to have got out of there alive.”