Van smashes into Solihull home - for a third time
They were taken to hospital but are not thought to have life-threatening injuries.
Tom, an engineer, who was due to start university in Birmingham today, said: “I was upstairs at the time and there was a crash like thunder.
“My first thought was for my parents because I knew they were in the living room. When I realised they were okay I went outside and it was crazy.
“There were people running around and screaming and I could see there were people trapped in the car.
“It’s so lucky my van was there because it acted like a kind of airbag. If it hadn’t been there then the car would have smashed straight into the living room wall where my mum and dad were.”
It is the third time the house has been hit by cars.
The property was struck twice in the space of four months in 2000.
On both occasions drivers lost control of their cars which demolished vehicles and garden walls as well as doing serious damage to the side of the house.
The first incident, in March 2000, saw a car ploughing through the Whites’ living room wall.
Four months later, just as building work was being completed to repair the house, a second car smashed into the house and hit parked vehicles in the family’s drive.
Now Mrs White, an operations manager, is calling for action to be taken to stop this happening again.
“Something has to be done,” she said.
“ I don’t know what they can do, but how long are we going to have to live with this, just being crashed into? Someone could have died,” she added.
Firefighter Tim Smith, from Solihull fire station, said: “When we got there the car was on its side leaning against a partly demolished wall.
“The wall was still standing and the conservatory was intact.
“We used cutting gear to get the two people out then made sure the structure was safe.
“We moved some of the bricks and checked the conservatory was not going to come down.”
West Midlands Ambulance Service sent a rapid response vehicle, two ambulance crews, an incident support officer, the West Midlands CARE team and the ambulance service’s Hazardous Area Response Team to the scene.
A spokesman said: “ One, a man in his 30s had a head injury and suspected abdominal injuries.
“He was immobilised with the use of a spinal board and neck collar and was taken on alert to the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch.
“The second occupant of the car, also a man, was placed on a spinal board and taken to the same hospital as a precaution.”
