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Returning to her home in London’s Blackfriars neighbourhood for the first time after a vehicle slammed into the house, Diane Yeo was surprised to see her paintings still hanging on the walls.

A white Mercedes Benz had plowed into the single-storey house after crashing into a café and pet-grooming business across the street, turning Yeo’s home into a sea of destruction.

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“To go and see all the glass and the rubble, it was surreal,” Yeo said. “And the interesting thing is all the paintings were still on the wall. Certain things were still in place . . . It was very bizarre and shocking.”

Speaking publicly Tuesday for the first time since the Oct. 27 crash, Yeo described the terrifying moments that followed the early-morning crash and the psychological fallout.

Yeo awoke around 3:30 a.m. to what she thought was an explosion. She got out of bed and peered out of her bedroom to see rubble and dust covering her living room.