CARDIFF, Wales (UPI) -- A 45-year-old woman in North Wales says her home is a veritable magnet for large goods vehicles, enduring one crash every year for more than a decade.

Amanda Sandland said a section of her home's roof is routinely crashed into by passing trucks and other oversized vehicles, causing her family to fear for their safety, Wales on Sunday reports.

"We've been here 18 years and the first time it happened was just three weeks after we moved in," she said.

"Jemma was just a baby then, but it's happened so regularly since then that by the time she turned 8 she refused to leave the house without a bicycle helmet on for safety," she added.

Sandland told the newspaper such incidents have increased since a nearby road became a popular travel route on navigation systems.

"It's not the drivers' fault. A lot are foreign and don't speak English or know the area -- they just follow what their GPS systems are telling them," she said.

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