A YOUNG woman says she is lucky to be alive after she crashed her car off a railway bridge near Taunton, plummeting 20 feet to the track below.

Chloe Pick was driving near her home in Norton Fitzwarren when she ploughed through a fence beside the bridge on the B3327 last Friday at around 11am.

Her Ford Fiesta was written off but she walked away from the accident relatively unscathed.

Chloe, 20, said: “I just came round the corner too tight and hit the curb and tried to straighten myself up but lost control of the steering and luckily I didn’t hit the bridge.

“I can remember being in mid-air and trying to stay as still as possible and then the car bounced back and landed in a ditch by the side of the railway line.”

Chloe told the County Gazette she got straight out of the car and scrambled quickly up the hill to call for help.

She added: “My adrenalin made me run up the hill and I didn’t feel like I was injured until I got into the ambulance.”

The university student, who is doing a business internship at Debenhams’ head office in Taunton, was taken to Musgrove Park Hospital where she was treated for concussion and neck injuries.

She added: “There have been so many accidents on that road and I think there should be a sign there. I live here and sometimes see these big lorries going way too fast.”

West Somerset Railway general manager Paul Conibeare said: “We have had three incidents on that bridge, although this was the first one below it, so we will be talking to Somerset County Council to see what measures can be taken to slow motorists down.”

A Somerset County Council spokesman said the Norton Railway Bridge sustained some superficial damage which will be repaired as soon as possible.