A car has crashed into a wall in Kibworth, causing delays for motorists in the area.
The incident, on Leicester Road in the village, has caused tailbacks in both directions along the A6 towards Leicester and towards Market Harborough.
The collision sent bricks hurtling into the air and some of them hit the home of Joan Fillingham, 75.
She said: "I'd just come home from playing bridge and I was just taking my coat off when I heard a tremendous bang and I thought it was thunder.
"Then I saw all the brick dust in the air and looked outside and the wall at the end of my garden was gone."
She said the young male driver of the vehicle was not badly hurt, although the car was badly damaged.
She said: "The driver was alright but he was very shaken. They took him away to hospital, though.
"The car was his mother's and it was a write-off.
"It ended up halfway through the wall and at an angle because my garden is lower than the road. It had to be lifted away by a crane and they had to shut the road for that, so it caused some hold-ups."
The incident happened at 4.45pm and the vehicle had been recovered and the road fully re-opened by 6pm.
