Van smashes into Solihull home - for a third time
A WOMAN said her family was lucky to be alive today after a van smashed through the wall of her house – for the third time.
Mother-of-three Julia White was sitting in the living room of her home in Shirley with her husband Bernard when the vehicle smashed through her conservatory.
It showered the living room with debris. The vehicle was her son’s van, which had been shunted into the house by impact when it was hit by a car.
“I know it sounds stupid, but I thought aliens had landed,” said Mrs White, of Tanmore Lane.
“There was a huge bang and then I saw the vehicle had come through the walls and its indicator lights were flashing.
“When I realised what had happened I immediately thought someone must have died.”
An MG Rover ZT 190 with two occupants had hit her son Tom’s Vauxhall van which had been parked 15ft down the road. It had shunted it up to the house and pushed it through the wall into the conservatory, just yards from the couple.
“ I went outside and everyone was out of their houses and someone was screaming,” said Mrs White. “Someone else was shouting ‘call an ambulance’ and there was a crashed car up in the air leaning on Tom’s van.”
Firefighters using cutting gear battled for an hours to release the men inside, working alongside paramedics treating them following the crash at 9pm last night.
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