DRIVER CRASHES INTO HOME AFTER LOSING CONTROL OF CAR
A FAMILY is today counting the cost of damage after a driver lost control and ploughed into their home. The elderly woman escaped serious injury when her Lexus hybrid plunged down an embankment, hitting Gillian Phillips’ property in Louth.
She is thanking her lucky stars she was not emptying bins at the time and that no one was walking past her home on Priory Road when the woman lost control.
She is also grateful the elderly driver wasn’t seriously hurt. Emergency services were on the scene quickly to treat the woman involved in the crash, which happened at about 12.30pm on Wednesday, March 3.
She had parked on Priory Road and was reversing back up the hill when she lost control.
Gillian, who was in her kitchen at t the time of the crash, said: “The e noise was horrendous. I have never r heard anything like it.
“The emergency services were e here very quickly and she was s trapped. They were talking to her r and she kept saying she was sorry. “We are glad she was not badly hurt. It is just buildings that are damaged.”
The crash demolished her garden wall and to the car port.
Gillian Gilli added: dd d “It is i lucky l k no one was walking past or someone pushing a pram. I daren’t think what might have happened if i was out at the bins.”
Luckily pupils at Louth Academy nearby b are off ff due d to t the th lockdown l kd and none were in the street when the incident happened.
The vehicle was recovered yesterday evening and Lincolnshire Police are conducting an investigation.