A DENTAL hygienist has told how a lamppost outside the surgery possibly saved her life after a car crashed through the surgery wall.

Heather Worley, 28, from Maidenhead, was polishing the teeth of a client at the Bridge Dental Surgery in Station Road, Marlow, at about 3pm last Thursday when she heard a loud crash outside her treatment room.

Ms Worley said: "I ran out to have a look and saw a Ford Fiesta had crashed through the wall and run into a lamppost. It was bent nearly double.

"If it hadn't been for the lamppost, the car probably would have come through my window and we would have been crushed, as I had a patient in the chair at the time."

Ms Worley said the driver opened her passenger door and was sitting as if in a daze, with what she thought was a stream of petrol leaking from underneath the car onto the road.

No one was injured in the incident although another car is believed to have been involved.

The lamppost has been bent back almost to its original shape and the surgery is open as usual.