The 27-year-old was travelling from her home in the Welsh capital of Cardiff to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, where she is employed as a physiotherapist, when the accident took place.

She was taken to hospital immediately after the incident which took place in the town of Talbot Green.

"I got off incredibly lucky," Horne said, according to Wales Online.

"It’s quite a shock.

"It has given me a bit of a fright.

"I remember hitting the side of the car, in the window area, and witnesses have said I went straight across the windscreen.

"I landed the other side and felt my head spinning.

"I thought I’d fractured my jaw."

Horne was part of the British team at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

She formed part of the team pursuit squad but was not picked to compete in the final as Britain claimed gold in a world record time.

Horne is set to have an MRI scan on a suspected fracture of her wrist bone tomorrow.

The 27-year-old was part of the British team that won bronze at the International Cycling Union (UCI) Track Cycling World Championships in London last year.

She has also won two European Track Cycling Championship team pursuit gold medals.

Her first was in Guadeloupe in 2014 while her second was in Grenchen in Switzerland a year later.

Horne also enjoyed success in road cycling, taking bronze in the team time trial event at the UCI Road World Championships in Doha last year.

She also represented Wales at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in the individual pursuit competition, where she placed 15th.