'I was just completely frozen with fear': Young mum tells of miracle escape as car crashes into Scarborough home

Beth Robinson says the crash caused rubble to cover an area where her newborn son had been just minutes before.

“I’ve been left absolutely traumatised thinking about what could have been,” she said.

“It was so frightening.”

Beth, 24, was at her home on Derwent Street with her month-old son Harlow when the crash happened, at around 3.07pm on Saturday.

“I had just picked him up and moved from the area that’s covered in rubble and seconds later the car came smashing through,” she said.

“The driver then reversed his car out, and I was standing there just completely frozen with fear.”

She then rang her partner, Cameron Gough, and his parents to tell them what had happened.

While Beth was waiting for Cameron, 22, to come home, a neighbour came over to say he had rung the emergency services and he asked if she wanted to keep warm in his house.

She said: “We can’t live in our house for the foreseeable future and we’ve had to go to my partner’s parents’ house in their spare room with us two and our baby all cooped up.

“We have no idea how long repairs could take with the lockdown and the virus. It’s been a complete disaster.

“It really was quite horrible, you see it on TV and never imagine it happening to yourself.”

Firefighters from Scarborough and Malton fire stations used stabilising equipment to make the building safe on Saturday and a structural engineer was also called.