Complaints made before car smashed into house
POLICE have issued a warning to drivers after a car ploughed into a house.
Motorists are being that their vehicle could be urged “to drive carefully seized if they continued to and considerately” on the drive in a anti-social manner.roadinMaestegwhere the Ford Focus partially Cameron Davies, 33, demolished the property his wife Kimberley, their while a family slept inside. four-year-old daughter
Despite the extensive Quaide and two-yeardamage to the house on old son Crewe had been Ewenny Road, no-one was asleep upstairs when the hurt in the crash at 1am on car came through the front Monday, April 3. wall.
But the incident angered Neighbours terrified residents who claim they for the family’s safety ran have repeatedly called on to the house to find out if Bridgend County Borough they were hurt and to help Council to install trafficthem escape. calming measures on that “I heard glass and everyroad and neighbouring body shouting our names,” Oakwood Drive. said Cameron, who plays
Inspector Ross Crutcher in the back row for Maesof South Wales Police has teg RFC. subsequently confirmed “I came downstairs. I that in the last 12 months thought the house was on there have been five incifire because of the dust dents involving what he and stuff. You couldn’t see called “the manner of drivdown the stairs. ing” at Ewenny Road and “Then it was panic staOakwood Drive. tions. The first thing on my
He said one driver was mind was getting the kids reported for driving ofout of the house.” fences and another driver He passed the children was issued with a Section through the small hole that 59 warning, which means remained above the car to neighbours waiting on the other side.
Neighbours said that about 17 years ago a motorbike crashed into the living room of the same house, number 17 – which is now owned by the Davies family.
A car also previously crashed into number 16.
A Bridgend council spokesman said: “We understand that South Wales Police have made an arrest and are awaiting the outcome of their investigation.”
Insp Crutcher said: “We would like to warn drivers that this road is a narrow road whereby generally only one car can pass though at a time.
“Therefore, we would ask people to drive carefully and considerately when on this road.”
A South Wales Police spokeswoman said Owen Lyons, 21, from Maesteg, has been charged with driving without due care and attention and drink driving and will appear before magistrates in Cardiff later this month.