It was the sound of the alarm that woke Ying Xie up on Sunday morning.
She heard it at 2.30am as she slept in the flat above Tsang’s Kitchen, the Chinese restaurant she runs in Iffley Road with her husband, Roy Tsang, 44.
When the couple ventured downstairs to see what had happened, they were greeted by a scene of devastation.
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A Vauxhall SUV had careered off the arterial Oxford road, crashed into Tsang’s Kitchen and the adjacent Turtle Pizza Cafe, and flipped onto its side.
“I thought 'oh my god'”, said Mrs Xie, 39. “It’s so lucky that nobody was hurt.”
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The shop fronts of the two restaurants were badly damaged in the crash.
Turtle Pizza Cafe took the brunt of the impact, which destroyed the metal shutters and smashed the glass frontage.
The glass windows of Tsang’s Kitchen were also broken and the front door no longer works, according to Mrs Xie.
A wall has also caved in at the restaurant and a table was knocked over.
The restaurant has closed while Mrs Xie and her husband repair the damage.
“When everything is repaired, we will then reopen,” she told the Oxford Mail.
“I don’t know when that will be, or how much it will cost.
“I’m very scared. I’m not thinking about the business or the repairs. I just think it’s so lucky that nobody was hurt.”
Mrs Xie said the crash would have been worse during opening hours when Tsang’s Kitchen is regularly packed with customers.
Customers also regularly sit on tables and chairs outside Turtle Pizza Cafe.
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The pizza restaurant has been contacted for comment.
Thames Valley Police officers attended the scene and the vehicle was towed away by 5pm that evening.
A spokesman for the force said: “It is a damage only road traffic collision. I gather structural engineers will be assessing the damage.”
Oxford city councillor for St Mary's ward, Emily Kerr, said: “A neighbour tells me this is the fourth car which has flipped near their house since they’ve been living in my ward.
“Each year on Oxfordshire’s roads there are 30,000 accidents.
“Let’s face it, dangerous driving is the real risk on our roads, not e-scooters or cyclists.”
The crash came on a weekend of tragedies across the county with at least five serious road traffic accidents in three days.
A man, 33, was killed at a roundabout in Banbury on Saturday morning while a woman in her 40s died on the M40 on Sunday.
A pedestrian, 72, was hit by a Vauxhall van in Faringdon on Friday afternoon, leaving her in hospital with spinal and leg injuries.
On the same day, a man, 21, suffered broken bones and lacerations in a hit-and-run in Banbury involving a small yellow car.
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