VILLAGERS in Torre, Washford, have been praised for rushing to the aid of octogenarian ballet dancer Judith Goodall when she was involved in a car crash.

Mrs Goodall, who is 82 and lives in Curlew Close, Minehead, was driving out of Washford on Abbey Road near Torre Trout Farm when she was in a head-on collision with a car travelling in the opposite direction.

She said: “The people who came out to help me, I did not even know them but they rushed out to help.

“I want to say thank you to them because they were all so kind and generous and one young man, Wes Hopwood, even drove me all the way home.

“I was very badly shaken up and I have a few bruises and I am getting a few backaches.”

Mrs Goodall said she was a ‘youthful’ 80-something and was still regularly attending ballet dancing classes in Roadwater.

However, she said she would not be able to carry on dancing until she had a car again because she now had to use buses to travel around the area and could not reach Roadwater.