'I thought we were going to die. It was terrifying'

MUM TELLS OF HORROR AS DRIVER SMASHES INTO BACK OF THEIR CAR THEN LANDS ON THEIR BONNET

- By MEGAN BANNER

A FAMILY “cheated death” on their way home from KFC after a terrifying crash.

What should have been an average journey Rachel Swift and her family had made “hundreds of times” almost had a harrowing ending after a car collided with them, flipped on to its roof and landed on their vehicle.

Speaking to the ECHO, mum-of-two Rachel, 33, described the terrifying moment she thought she was going to be killed alongside her partner and youngest daughter Dottie, six.

She recalled grabbing her daughter from her car seat inside their mangled car and running from the scene as fast as she could.

The family had been to drop Rachel's oldest daughter, Ellie, in Liverpool city centre before “grabbing a KFC” and heading home to Widnes with Dottie.

Rachel’s partner, Gary Downey, 37, had been driving the family along Childwall Valley Road when a car collided with them, before flipping on to its roof, landing on their bonnet and hitting the ground.

Describing the terrifying collision, Rachel said: “We were on our way home from Liverpool.

“As we were driving along home, the car behind us kept getting really close.