Customers escaped death by inches after a runaway car ploughed through the front of a busy cafe while they were eating breakfast. Ricky Garrett, 67, and his family had just moved to a warmer table when the red Kia Picanto smashed through the front window of the shop and into their former seats. Multiple tables was smashed to pieces, and son Aaron, 34, fractured his thumb while pulling his mum Susan, 66, out of the path of the out of control car, yesterday (15).

Diners were pushed up against the walls by the force of the crash - but miraculously all seven customers and two staff members escaped without major injury. A shocking video shows the battered car pressed up against the counter - still with cakes on top - and cups of coffee on nearby tables at the cafe in Newbridge, Caerphilly, south Wales. Ricky, a singer, said it was a miracle nobody was killed in the crash which missed a mother with a pram by inches and an elderly man by seconds.

The crash happened when retired Susan and Ricky met Aaron, also a singer, and his partner Kayleigh Smith, 33, after the couple dropped off their son, 12, at school. They were meeting for a late breakfast at Victoria's Cafe and one half of the group had ordered at the counter, and the other half were in the process, at around 11.50am. The family, who were joined by another friend, were sat on the table in the path of the car, but had moved moments earlier to be closer to seats near a radiator.

The vehicle smashed through the front window and Ricky injured his ribs when he was pushed up against the wall by the moving tables. Aaron fractured his thumb, and is in a cast, while pulling his mum Susan from the path of the car, and she hurt her shoulder.