“I had gone to fill (wife) Dessie’s car up with fuel,” Peter said.

“On any other day I would’ve been in that shed doing the books.

“It was close to say the least.”

The driver of the car, a 25-year-old woman, also escaped serious injury.

Her Mitsubishi Magna sedan left the road shortly before 10am on Tuesday and travelled almost 200 metres across the paddock on the corner of Old Bundarra Rd and Macintyre St before crashing into side of the shed which houses the Inverell Physiotherapy and Spinal Injury Centre.

The woman driving the Magna was taken to Inverell Hospital.

Mrs Kearsey, a physiotherapist spoke to the Inverell Times’ sister publication the Northern Daily Leader on Tuesday.

“This morning was quite a normal morning and then next thing I know there was a huge bang,” she said.

“I raced outside and there was smoke everywhere.

“My first thought was that something exploded in the shed and (that) my husband was in there.

“The smoke was so thick and then I saw the car suspended in the carport with a lady in it.

“It’s a miracle she’s still alive,” Mrs Kearsey said about the driver.

The accident caused extensive damage to the shed. Three walls were destroyed and the runaway vehicle also careered into two cars Peter owned in the carport.

The 1969 XY Falcon and 1950 Desoto were damaged, as was furniture and computer equipment.

“Luckily we all have insurance,” Peter told The Inverell Times.

“In the meantime I’ll just have to do the accounts somewhere else,” he said.

Somewhere with a window anyway so he can see trouble if it’s coming.