Hunt for driver after stolen car smashes into kitchen
A TERRIFIED mother ran for her life after a high-powered stolen Audi ploughed into her kitchen as she lay in bed upstairs.
Dawn Jowett, 54, thought a gas explosion had ripped her house apart when she heard a terrific bang and felt her entire home shake in the early hours of Sunday.
The mum-of-two raced downstairs in her pyjamas and found that an Audi A4, stolen in Marple, had driven through the wall of her kitchen in Offerton.
Water gushed from damaged pipes as Dawn clambered over rubble and debris to escape through the hole in the wall.
Dawn, a carer at an old people’s home, grabbed her two dogs and ran out into the street, fearing there may be an explosion.
ATERRIFIED mother ran for her life after a high-powered stolen Audi ploughed into her kitchen as she lay in bed upstairs.
Dawn Jowett, 54, thought a gas explosion had ripped her house apart when she heard a terrific bang and felt her entire home shake in the early hours of Sunday.
The mum-of-two raced downstairs in her pyjamas and found that an Audi A4 had driven through the wall of her kitchen in Offerton. Water gushed from damaged pipes as Dawn clambered over rubble and debris to escape through the hole in the wall.
Dawn, a carer at an old people’s home, grabbed her two dogs and ran out into the street, fearing there may be an explosion.
She said: “I had been to a family party and was in bed. I was so frightened. It was crazy the sound that it made.
“When I looked downstairs I thought my son had left the gas on because of the damage. The water was spilling out everywhere.
“I thought it was a gas explosion. I went out through the hole in the wall in my pyjamas. It’s lucky my brother didn’t come home with me last night because if he’d come back we would have sat in the kitchen and had a cup of tea.”
Witnesses who rushed over to help Dawn described seeing a bleeding man and another person running from the wreckage of the white Audi two-litre cabriolet at around 4.20am.
The crash shook the row of terrace houses so hard that the neighbour’s cupboard doors flew open. Police are now hunting the driver of the car and a bloodied man who was seen walking from the scene on Hall Lane.
The crash happened directly below her autistic son Kieran’s bedroom. In a stroke of luck the 15-yearold was staying at a friend’s house overnight.
Dawn said he would have been terrified if he had been at home at the time. She said: “I’m just glad my son was not here because it would have upset him and it was just below his room. You can see the cracks on his bedroom wall.”
Firefighters have made the house safe and secure but Dawn and Kieran have been made temporarily homeless as a result of the crash.
She said: “I think the cost of the damage is more than the house is worth. This house is my pride and joy because I bought it on my own and worked for 18 years for it. Your home is your life.”