A DRIVER crawled from the wreckage of a car which plunged down an embankment and flipped on its roof on a Blackwood housing estate early today.

He was taken to Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital, but was not believed to be seriously injured.

Residents of the Dan-y-bryn estate, Pontllanfraith, were shocked when the car left Bryn Road and hit a wall before ending up in the garden of one of the houses at 7.30am.

Martin Waite was looking out of the window of his home when the Vauxhall Corsa swerved off the road and mounted the pavement.

He said: "When the car crashed the noise it made made me think of someone putting beer bottles into a bin."

Mr Waite said the car went down a steep embankment onto a garden. He said: "It hit the top of the wall and flipped completely, right over."

He said at that time of the morning children were on their way to school: "It was a miracle no-one else was injured."

A Blackwood police spokesman said: "By the time officers arrived he was out of the car. It was a lucky escape for him."