A SHOCKED couple woke up to find 'carnage' on their driveway after a driver ploughed into both their cars following a police chase.

Beverley and Nick Pope somehow slept through the terrifying crash, involving a red BMW, outside their home in Bilford Road, Worcester, at around 12.15am on Saturday.

Mr Pope, aged 57, only learned about the incident at about 9am that morning when he went outside to see if his wife’s car needed to be de-iced.

He discovered a scene of 'carnage' which included police tape, leaking oil and debris from the crash, including branches of their conifer strewn everywhere.

West Midlands Ambulance Service has confirmed that the driver, a man in his 30s, was taken by ambulance to Worcestershire Royal Hospital with a head injury.

Mr Pope's silver VW Touareg had been pushed back around six metres and into the garden wall of their bungalow, where it is now embedded at an angle.

They found one of the car's headlights on the decking around 25 metres from the point of impact.

It had suffered extensive damage to the front passenger side and is a write-off.

Their Ford Ka Sport suffered damage to the back but is still drivable, though they have been advised to take it only short distances.

Mrs Pope, 65, a library customer adviser at the Fairfield Centre in Worcester, said: “The police didn’t even knock on our door to tell us. We didn’t know until we got up in the morning and saw the carnage.

"My husband nearly had a heart attack. He came in white as a sheet and said something terrible had happened to the cars.

“The police said they thought we were away but they didn’t ring the doorbell. It’s also damaged the railings by the school (Tudor Grange Academy). The police had dragged the BMW away before we got up. The shock of it has been terrible.

"We feel we have just been left to get on with it, like we've been left in limbo.

"Two officers came to the house afterwards and they were very nice and helpful but we're still left with trying to do everything."

Mr Pope, an electrical design engineer, could not get to work in Hartlebury on Monday and hoped to pick up a hire car later that day.

They are unsure yet of the value of the damage but believe it is likely to run into the thousands.

The couple say the Touareg is four-wheel drive and was bought specially to pull their caravan, so they cannot even go on holiday to get away from what happened.

They feel if it was not for the protection afforded by their garden wall the car would have ended up in their kitchen.

* Simon James Jones, aged 34, of Mayfield Road, Worcester, has been charged with driving a motor vehicle dangerously, failure to stop after road accident, possession of a knife blade/sharp pointed article in a public place and failure to stop a mechanically propelled vehicle when required by police.

Jones was detained in custody to appear at Worcester Magistrates Court on Monday.