A COUPLE are lucky to be alive after their car ploughed through a lamppost and came to a halt on a roundabout after a day out in Hornsea.
Driver Darren Clifton, 43, was driving back to his home in Nottingham with his wife Kim when their Volvo C70 skidded across the A164 near Goole.
The car smashed through road signs and knocked over the lamppost before coming to a halt on the roundabout in Rawcliffe Road.
However, the couple managed to escape serious injuries and suffered only whiplash, despite the damage caused to their car.
Mr Clifton said: "If we had been in our other car, a Vectra, we could have been dead.
"I tried to put the brakes on but the car didn't respond. That was it, it just wasn't slowing down.
"I came through both signs and took the lamppost out, lifting it out of the ground."
The couple were heading home from a day out at the seaside town when they crashed.
"The car slid across the road and hit the roundabout," said Mr Clifton.
"The kerb lifted the passenger side up in the air until it stopped.
"It shattered the front wheels.
"I was shocked that we were able to walk away from it.
"The ambulance came, but neither of us were injured, just suffering from shock."
A Humberside Police spokesman said: "We were called to a single vehicle road traffic collision on Wednesday, September 18.
"The road traffic collision happened on the A164 Rawcliffe Road where the vehicle left the road and went straight over a roundabout.
"There were two people in the vehicle at the time of the incident.
"A male driver and a female passenger. Neither were reported as injured and neither needed hospital treatment."
East Riding Council has been informed of the damage caused to road signs on the roundabout after the crash.
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