AN ELDERLY couple is thanking the people who helped them after their car crashed into a wall in Risca two weeks ago.

June and Norman Williams, of Almond Avenue, Ty-Sign, were rushed to hospital after their Ford Fiesta crashed on August 7 at the junction between Lower Wyndham Terrace and Wyndham Terrace less than a mile from their house.

Mrs Williams, 76, who returned home from the Royal Gwent Hospital on Monday night, rang the Argus to say thank you to all of the people who helped her and her 81-year-old husband Norman including neighbours, doctors and nurses.

The Argus reported at the time how Kevin Morgan, 28, heard the smash from inside his house and with the help of another man, pulled Mr Williams out of the car and put him in the recovery position.

Ansiah Harris and Masey James, both 14 and from Risca, were passing by when they witnessed the accident and dialled 999.

Mrs Williams said the teenagers had visited her and her husband in hospital as they wanted to make sure the couple were ok.

The grandmother-of-two said she and her husband were on their way to Morrisons when the crash happened at about 12.30pm.

She said she remembers the car turning out of their road and down the hill when she suddenly realised the car was on the wrong side of the road.

Mrs Williams said there was no other cars on the road and she saw her husband was slumped over the wheel.

The pensioner remembers very little from the accident but said the car crashed into the nearby garden wall, bounced off it, hit it again and then went into the lampost.

Mrs Williams said: “I saw what I thought was smoke but it must have been the radiator. I jumped out and shouted to get someone to call the ambulance.”

A woman passing by took Mrs Williams and sat her in her nearby car until the paramedics arrived.

She said she feared her husband was dead and was told by doctors that her husband had a mini stroke which had caused him to black out just before the crash.

The couple were taken to the Royal Gwent where Mrs Williams was treated for internal bleeding caused mainly by her seatbelt.

Her husband was transferred to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff on Friday night and she said he may have to have a pacemaker fitted.

But she said he is doing well, has spoken to him on the phone and hopes to visit him in hospital today.

Mrs Williams said she doubts her husband, who has been driving for more than 40 year, will now ever drive again.