WORCESTER - A tree lies across the Onanian's front yard in Worcester. It may be a mess now, but Grace Onanian says the tree saved her life. 

She says, "I'm so lucky nothing happened. Just a little scratch."

Onanian was sitting in her living room by the window Monday night when a car crashed into the home on Pleasant Street. She says she felt a big impact and was covered in glass.

"It just felt like the world came down on me," she says.

She and husband Mark aren’t sure how it happened. The driver was injured, but he and the passengers will be OK.

"I saw him have blood coming down and my front yard had it, too," she says.

Mark Onanian adds, "I'm just so happy and grateful my wife and everyone else is safe."

The tree took most of the impact from the crash, and without its protection, Onanian says the car would have barreled into the house, and her.

"Everything can be replaced, but the important thing is we're OK," she says. 

She says the tree is a blessing in disguise because the couple has been trying to remove it for a year.

"We were talking two days before it happened. I said 'I don't know if I want to cut the tree. I got a feeling that it would protect the house.' And my nephew said upstairs, 'Grace, you just mentioned that two days ago, isn't that [crazy]?' "

The couple lives by the Dellwood Road and Moreland Street intersections on Pleasant Street. They say a couple of their neighbors have also had cars into their homes in the past, and would like to see the city install barriers on the street.