A FAMILY who were woken by a huge bang outside their Monmouth home found their car and two other vehicles written off.

The crash happened at 2am next to the Nag’s Head pub when a vehicle collided with a parked car, causing a three-car shunt.

Father-of-three Richard Graefe, who lives next door to the pub in Old Dixton Road, said: “We were all asleep when there was this almighty bang outside and the car alarm went off.

“I saw somebody hobbling away from the scene and ran outside with other neighbours who were also rubbing their eyes in disbelief seeing this chaos of three cars shunted together.

“A car with a crumpled bonnet and front bumper had evidently hit our Mercedes, shunting it into another vehicle. Our car’s rear wing and bumper were smashed, along with the light, and all three cars were later written off by the insurers.

“I called the police who were on the scene within 90 seconds. Apparently there had been a late night party going on around the corner and they arrested someone nearby.

“We live on a bottleneck where the road narrows by the pub, making it just one lane, and it’s very scary with young children, as people go cruising in their cars from the riverside and speed past our house making a heck of a racket.”

Police confirmed that a 27-year-old man had been arrested and charged with drink driving in connection with the Sunday, June 11, incident and had been bailed to appear in court.