A very lucky woman in Cornwall has escaped a car and train crash with nothing lost other than her cheap car insurance. Her car collided with a train at a level crossing in Newquay, yet luckily no one involved was injured.
Police were called to the scene in Trencreek Road where the accident involving a single carriage First Great Western train had taken place.
The 28-year-old female driver from St Newlyn claimed that she had not seen the railway crossing warning and felt "lucky to be alive".
The lady said, "I've been rushed off my feet all day and was not aware that there was a warning at the crossing…I don't often come down that road. I was travelling fairly slowly and out of the blue saw the train."
It is important that motorists are extra vigilant when approaching railway crossings and do not try to rush through as the consequences can be catastrophic.
The loss of cheap car insurance quotes in the future is likely to be of little concern to the female driver, when considering what could have happened in the incident.
A spokesman said, "The driver of the car will be spoken to by BTP officers to establish whether any offences have occurred under the Road Traffic Act."