It was a Christmas miracle that four-year-old Zachary Floyd was not killed when a suspected drunk driver crashed through the wall close to where he normally plays. But his mother Karen Floyd felt a premonition to let her son watch television on a school night because it was Christmas.

All that was left of his play area was rubble and rocks after a car flipped on Spanish Point Road last night.

"My four-year-old always plays out here," his mother Karen Floyd said. "I am very thankful. He always plays in that corner of the yard," she said pointing to what was left of her wall.

"We would not have him with us if he was out there," she said. "But for some reason I had told him not to play outside and to stay in the house."

Mrs. Floyd was inside the house with Zachary and her five-month old baby Benjamin when the car smashed ten feet away from her home.

And she said she rented "a few Christmas movies" for the children to watch that night.

"After going to school he is never allowed to watch TV. But I thought, it was Christmas, so he should watch them. I never thought someone would come through the wall."

"We are thankful the Lord was watching over us," she said.

She said cars were constantly zooming past her home, so when she heard the car she did not get up to check it out.

"We can always hear cars speeding past the house," she said. "That was why I wanted to have speed bumps put down on this road. This is not the first accident around here."

In July, a St. George's teenager suffered burns in a bike accident when he lost control and the bike struck a palm tree and caught fire. on Spanish Point Road at 12.20 p.m.

"I heard the car speeding down the road. I am so used to it I did not get up. Then I felt the vibration when the car hit. With the wood floors in the house I heard a vibration of the crash. I came out and saw the extent of the damage. Thankfully everyone was alright," she said.

"And we just got that wall painted two weeks ago," she added.

"The car had hit us a further ten feet down the wall it would have gone right into the porch," Zachary's father Jason Floyd said. "I'm still trying to figure out how it all happened".

Mr. Floyd also said his children would not be allowed to play outside any more.

The Floyds hoped repairs for the old wall would be paid for by the car driver's insurance because their home had already been damaged last year by Fabian.

In addition, they said, they would be building another wall and adding a fence at the back of the house where the children would now have to play.

"We will have to keep him safe in his own home," they said.

Speaking from outside the Floyd home later that night, Police spokesman Dwayne Caines said the result of the accident could have been far worse. He pointed out the road was narrow and there were homes right alongside with children playing in the area.

"I saw two children in the yard next door," he said.