Lucky escape as car hits conservatory
AN ELDERLY couple had a lucky escape when a runaway car plunged through their conservatory.
In a freak accident, the Nissan Almera rolled backwards off a driveway, through a neighbour’s fence and over a garden pond, before smashing into the house.
Sam Burke, of Burke Brothers Recovery, said he arrived at the address in Bilston, West Midlands, on Tuesday night.
“I had a ring from the office about 9:30pm, and they said, ‘There’s a car in a house’,” he said. “When I got there, me and the lads were thinking, ‘where is it?’ We couldn’t see it to start with. It had gone down the hill, right through a fence, over a pond and then into the conservatory.”
He went into the house to find a slightly shaken elderly couple in their dressing gowns, who had been getting ready for bed.