A West Acres family could only look on in amazement as yet another car came crashing through their garden wall early on Saturday evening – for the fourth time in total and the third during the past three years.
The crash took place on the corner of Banket and Delta streets, bordering the access road to a town-house cluster.
In what appears to be an amazing feat, a relative of one of the neighbours managed to lodge her vehicle into the wall, at a right angle to the road.
Although the wall was destroyed, the attached palisade fence remained intact, and the driver could count her lucky stars that she came away unscathed.
The occupants of both the house and a granny flat on the premises where startled by a high-impact bang after 19:00.
They ran out to view the surreal sight of the car perched halfway into their garden. It was the first time a crash had occurred at that particular spot, as the three previous incidents were all at the other end of the yard at the bottom of a slope.
“The first time was years ago and simply a case of a not-too-secure handbrake failing.
“The two subsequent occasions involved neighbours and friends of neighbours – and a fair amount of alcohol,” resident Ms Ciska Kay remarked.
“Sober people seem to have no problem negotiating the wall,” she added dryly. The driver retreated into the neighbour’s house soon after the accident and refused treatment from rescue personnel.
The family doesn’t have a solution to the problem, but is concerned about the regularity of the accidents.
“It’s scary. The cars usually come crashing through the bottom of the garden right next to our bedroom wall.
“This time it’s the area where my daughter usually plays. But what can you do?
“Wishing people would stop drinking and driving is like praying for world peace – it simply isn’t going to happen, is it?” Kay concluded.
