Woman in hospital as car destroys house crashing through wall
Two women are lucky to be alive after their home was destroyed when a car being driven by a 15-year-old crashed through the wall. Georgina Smith, 54, is in hospital with a fractured cheekbone, jaw and eye socket and a bleed on the brain after being trapped under the rubble at thebungalow. Sister Kerry Smith – who has MS – was thrown from the sofa during the incident.
They will both have to move out pf the home. Kerry, 56, said: “We were just sitting watching TV. She was sitting at one end of the settee and me the other.
I heard this bang and I was on my knees. I looked back and I could see this van but I couldn’t see George. I had to crawl to the hallway to reach the landline.
My mobile was somewhere under the rubble.
“I called the emergency services. The operator was asking me questions like ‘Is she breathing?’. She wasn’t just breathing, she was screaming.
There was a pool of blood, it was a bloodbath, it was my leg that was bleeding. “The emergency services had to dig her out from the rubble. I had to go out to the ambulance without shoes or anything.
I got in the ambulance but I wouldn’t leave until I saw my sister come out.”
Police[1] told StokeonTrentLive[2] the occupants of the Ford Tourneo fled the scene following the incident in the early hours. They later arrested and bailed two 16-year-old boys and a 15-year-old girl on suspicion of aggravated vehicle taking, and a 15-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl on suspicion of dangerous driving and aggravated vehicle taking. Kerry added: “There will be no licence and no insurance and they must have been going at some speed to cause that devastation.
“Forty-four years of memories in that home are destroyed now.
My mum and dad’s ashes are in the bungalow. There are things which are sentimental. It’s obliterated.
It’s like a bomb’s hit, never mind a van.”
References
- ^ Police (www.nottinghampost.com)
- ^ StokeonTrentLive (www.stokesentinel.co.uk)