A MOTHER believes her family, including her baby daughter, are lucky to be alive after their car was involved in a collision with a HGV while driving through Chippenham.

She has been left angry by social media posts following the accident which claimed she was to blame.

Laura Mynes was driving her Peugeot 207 along the A350 with her disabled husband, Stuart, and 18-month-old daughter Daisy last Friday from their home in Malmesbury to the St Nicholas Hydrotherapy Pool in Chippenham.

As the trio headed to Morrisons to collect some food beforehand, their car collided with a lorry just outside the store, causing extensive damage.

“We don’t normally go that way and we were in the left lane and this lorry was in the right and I did think ‘that’s a large lorry’ just before it happened,” said Mrs Mynes, 36, of Cowbridge Crescent.

“The lanes merge and there was just an almighty bang by the door on the passenger side which sent us spinning around into the central reservation and back into the lorry.

“I remember screaming and when it stopped I got out and didn’t care if my leg was hanging off or what injuries I had because my daughter was in the car.

“Daisy was on the other side of the car but she was fine, she didn’t even cry.”

Fire crews from Corsham and Calne attended the scene to cut off the car’s roof so Mr Mynes could be removed safely.

Mrs Mynes and her husband were taken to Great Western Hospital in Swindon but were released later that day with minor injuries.

“My husband couldn’t get out because the car was wedged between the central reservation and the lorry,” said Mrs Mynes.

“He said he had hurt his neck so they were a bit worried about that. They asked me if I was hurt and I said I didn’t know because of the adrenaline but after a little while I began to ache.

“There were no major injuries thank goodness, especially considering the state of the car. If the lorry had hit us a bit further up there I could have lost my legs.”

She was furious to see comments posted on social media after the accident, which claimed she had driven the wrong way down the road.

“It was just heartbreaking for someone to put that, they didn’t know the facts,” added Mrs Mynes. “The lorry driver was great, he said because he was so high up we were in his blind spot but he’s taken full responsibility for it.”