Beginner’s (bad) luck
Woman learning to drive ends up crashing into house in Glace Bay
Police say a single-vehicle accident Wednesday morning was simply a mistake by a woman learning to drive.
“An older woman was coming off of Park Street onto Union Street, when she took too wide of a turn,” said Const. Calvin Thomas of the Cape Breton Regional Police Service.
Thomas said the woman then hit the gas by mistake and ended up driving over the lawn and into the front of the twounit house on the corner.
“There was no one hurt,” Thomas said, adding the woman had a friend in the vehicle and both were wearing seat belts.
The accident occurred at about 9:20 a.m. and help wasn’t far away, as there happened to be a nurse and a continuing care assistant living in the two units where the accident occurred.
Dave McNeil was in his second-floor apartment when he heard a loud noise and ran to look out the window. Seeing a car crashed into the front of the house, he woke up his girlfriend, Chelsea Jackson.
“I ran to get Chelsea, as she’s a nurse,” he said.
Jackson said she had been up until 4 a.m. and was in a deep sleep and hadn’t heard a thing. She ran outside to render assistance to the women while her boyfriend called the police.
“I told them not to move just to make sure,” she said.
The women in the vehicle were shaken and apologetic, she said.
“They were saying how sorry they were and were concerned how we were going to get in our house,” she said.
Jackson they weren’t worried about the house, which they have been renting since October from her boyfriend’s mother.
“I was shaken at first, more scared someone was hurt,” she said.
“The steps is just material stuff and insurance will take care of it. We are just glad the women weren’t injured.”
However Jackson did advise the women if they felt any effects from the accident that they should get checked out at the hospital.
Police helped the women out of the vehicle, she added.
“They said they were sore but OK.”
Frances Mugford, a continuing care assistant who lives on the main floor apartment with her son, was also sleeping when the accident occurred.
“That’s my bedroom there, in front where the veranda is,” she said.
“I heard a bang and my cats went crazy. I didn’t know what had happened.”
Mugford looked out and saw
“I could hear Chelsea running downstairs. I knew the women were OK and that she was with them. The woman hit the house hard. God love her. I hope they ended up getting checked out as bruises can be painful.”
Frances Mugford
the car had ploughed into the house.
“I could hear Chelsea running downstairs. I knew the women were OK and that she was with them,” she said.
“The woman hit the house hard. God love her. I hope they ended up getting checked out as bruises can be painful.”