A WOMAN whose home has been struck by six cars in six years is demanding action before someone is killed.

In the latest incident on Saturday morning, a car smashed into a telegraph pole outside Catherine Dewhurst's home in Bury New Road, Whitefield, and snapped it in two.

The timber pole crashed into the front of her home, missing a bedroom window by inches. The driver escaped injury.

Now Ms Dewhurst wants traffic calming measures introduced on the stretch of road before someone is killed.

The mother-of-two said: "Either one of us or someone walking past is going to be killed. One of these days a car is going to come straight through the front window into the front room."

Last April 2002 a family had a lucky escape when a van smashed into their living room, a few hundred yards the road from Ms Dewhurst's house.

Mr Tommy Ferrand was watching television with his family when the van hurtled through the window causing his daughter and her boyfriend to dive to safety from the sofa.

Other neighbours have suffered damage to their homes, including demolished walls and damaged cars. Now one resident is organising a petition. Ms Dewhurst, who lives with her daughters, Nicola (21) and Laura (18), and her partner Steve Prince, said: "I have lived here six years and in that time my house alone has been hit six times. Last October our car, which was parked on the drive, was written off after a car crashed into it. This last time though, I was absolutely lived, I could not believe my eyes."

She said: "The police said the driver was not speeding but they all do along this road. Cars come round the corner from the roundabout and it is like pushing a button. They set off like a rocket."

A council spokesman said: "We have no records of complaints about this road but I would encourage residents to inform us of these things. We would then look at working with them to see if anything could be done."