A school girl escaped serious injury by a matter of minutes when a lorry ploughed into her home.

If it had struck Natalie Deacon's house in Hinton Parva just five minutes later, the 15-year-old believes she would have been killed as she left for school.

It is the second time in three months that a vehicle has hit a cottage in the picturesque village where the speed limit is 60mph.

Residents have been calling for it to be lowered for the last two years and fear it will take a death before Swindon Council acts.

They are now organising a go-slow protest through the village to try to force motorists to slow down on the 4.5 metre wide country road.

The latest accident took place at 7.45am when Natalie was alone in the house.

Onlookers said that the lorry lost control after it swerved to avoid another vehicle, hitting the side of the Deacon's home.

It dislodged some ornamental concrete blocks at the front of the house and left a 40ft long trail of blue paint along the brickwork.

"I was upstairs getting ready for school when there was an almighty crash. The house just shook," said Natalie. "I ran outside and there was a lorry parked into the side of our house. If it had hit just five minutes later I would have been walking to school and would probably have been hit."

Her mother, Debbie, a 36-year-old personal assistant, is furious the 60mph speed limit is still in place.

"When Natalie phoned me she was hysterical. Why should it take a fatality to make the council act? Other villages less than a mile away have speed limits Bishopstone even has a go slow sign for ducks to cross so why not Hinton Parva?"

Three months ago a stolen car hit a cottage in City Corner in the village and there have also been two accidents where cars have overturned.

Swindon Council has promised to carry out a review of the situation over the next few months. Spokeswoman Lynda Fleming said: "The villages in that area were reviewed several years ago by the county council. As a result of that Bishopstone got a 30mph speed limit but Hinton Parva didn't.

"We are reviewing it again within this current financial year and in the next few months we will have done an assessment. That will go to the parish council and the ward member for consultation."

Neighbour Derek Sherman, 67, was so frustrated that no applications were put in for speed restrictions in the village he submitted one himself last September.

"I got a reply back in February this year which said the average speed on the road was 44mph," he said. "But there is a 60mph limit which we do not believe is suitable for the road and cars certainly do not go much below that.

"They come flying down and eventually someone is going to be very seriously injured if nothing is done."