Bedroom crash trio flee from scene
When Donny Wilson heard the bang of a car crashing into her home the first thing she said to her husband was ‘‘not again’’.
The vehicle was carrying three people when it crashed into a parked truck and then into her bedroom on Cemetery Rd in Sanson about 12.50am.
Wilson said she woke to a bang and could hear a car motor ‘‘just screaming’’.
‘‘We knew exactly what it was, we’ve been through it before.’’
Almost 25 years ago Wilson said a car crashed into their bedroom in Sanson for the first time, with the headlight ended up a metre away from her head.
‘‘The first words I said to my husband was not again.’’
This time around the car didn’t make it through the wall, instead hitting the front bedroom and ending up in the fence next to it.
‘‘The speedo was stuck at 180 [kilometres] so they were motoring.’’
After the incident Wilson said she she was doing OK, but the most traumatised victim was yet to come right.
‘‘The cat was asleep at the end of our bed. He has jumped at any noise today.’’
The first time someone drove a car into their house the driver faced criminal charges but never apologised and Wilson said that was what she would be looking for this time.
‘‘I would like to see these three line up and face up.’’
The three men had fled from the scene, although one came back to grab a bag before running off again.
Wilson said she had patched the front of the house up and they were working with their insurance company to fix the damage.
Her husband, Warwick Wilson, said they now wanted a concrete fence across the front of their yard.
Police dogs were brought in to track the car occupants down, but they had not been found by Monday evening.
The damaged truck’s owner, who did not want to be named, said several people told him they’d seen the occupants of the white Mazda Familia before they fled.
Witnesses said officers at the scene told them the car had been stolen from Lower Hutt, and that a charging cell phone had been found inside, but police would not confirm this.there was about 100 metres of tyre tracks across grass on both sides of the road, coming from a bridge the road crosses at the entrance to the town’s 50km speed zone.
‘‘It came swerving down here, hit the truck, shot over the road and hit the house – no brake marks,’’ the truck owner said.
‘‘If they’d hit that bridge it’d be a different story, or hit the truck anywhere else – if they’d hit the chassis, there would have been no give.
‘‘They were lucky to get out alive, we’re lucky there’s no-one dead.’’
An insurance assessor was coming to look at the damage to the truck.
The transition to a suburban 50 km zone was too close to houses, he said.
‘‘This is the start of the race track – people zoom up and down here, it’s incredible...’
‘‘They should have judder bars here.’’
Police are investigating.