A MUM who awoke to find an articulated lorry in the side of her home near Dorchester has called for more warnings for heavy goods vehicles.

Carol Krosnar, 36, could not believe it when she discovered the 15-ton truck wedged fast against her Litton Cheney property.

A Hungarian driver followed his sat-nav device down the road rather than going a different way to Ford Farm on the nearby Ashley Chase Estate.

Mrs Krosnar said that it was not the first time a lorry has run into difficulty in the village and believes more could be done to warn unsuspecting drivers.

“We’ve never known anything like this,” she said. “But heavy goods vehicles have got stuck before where the roads are so narrow.

“There’s a warning sign as you come into Litton Cheney but it’s in English. That’s not much good for foreign drivers, and this one was Hungarian.

“They could put up a pictorial sign, showing a lorry with a cross through it. Something needs to be done.”

Mrs Krosnar, husband Tom and daughter Carmen were alerted to the crash after their baby girl Frida, two, woke them in the early hours.

She said: “I heard this humming and figured I’d just left the dishwasher on or something.

“Then I looked out and saw the lorry’s flashing lights. The driver was getting in and out of the vehicle and there was this loud clunk, so Tom went to investigate.”

The couple called police after the lorry driver tried but failed to move the 18.5-metre long vehicle.

Copywriter Mrs Krosnar said: “We thought he could just pull away and, at worst, rip the gutter off. But it wouldn’t move, it was wedged fast.

“The police closed the road and waited until it was light to move the lorry.”

Mrs Krosnar said the incident did not cause too much damage – but proved highly inconvenient for company director Mr Krosnar, 38.

She said: “There’s a crack in the outer wall and a small crack inside but our builder reckons he can patch it up.

“It could have been a lot worse. Luckily the room affected was just an office and not a bedroom. The transport firm is going to pay for it all anyway.

“Tom didn’t get to bed until 2am and he had to be up for 4am to travel to Heathrow.”

Mrs Krosnar said roads in and around Litton Cheney were heavily used by large vehicles heading to Ford Farm on Ashley Chase Estate.

BOSSES at Ford Farm say the cheese-making firm has already tried in vain to provide more signs to warn heavy goods vehicles.

Site director Martin Crabb apologised for the Litton Cheney incident and admitted lorries have got stuck in the village before.

But he says all previous offers to install signage to correctly direct large vehicles to the Ashley Chase Estate company have been refused by the parish council.

Mr Crabb said: “I’ve attended parish council meetings with another one of our directors on more than one occasion.

“We’ve offered to put up signs to warn drivers several times but unfortunately those offers have been declined.

“If we were offered the chance to put signage up then we would willingly take that opportunity.

“They could be in any format – whatever the parish council feels would fit in, whatever suits them.

“We honestly are trying our best.”