Left Perth just before 8pm to go up the coast for a night and a day.

As soon as I arrived my wife was trying to ring around 10pm but reception was patchy. I received a message from my wife that a car had gone through our bedroom, that her and both kids were OK and to get home ASAP.

I drove back as efficiently as possible (fanged it).

www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-10/carvhouse/2879722?site=perth?ion=news

A car has narrowly missed hitting a woman and her five-year-old son while they were sleeping in their home in the northern Perth suburb of Heathridge.

The car crashed through the front yard before veering into the master bedroom of the home on Dummer Way on Friday night.

The woman and her child were asleep at the time and were not injured.

An 18-year-old man from Heathridge was arrested at the scene.

Police say he may face drink driving and reckless driving charges, but has been released pending further inquiries.

I know the clean-up and repairs will be a massive pain and cause a lot of aggro and upset - but just remember how lucky you (all) have been... VERY!!

Your famous!

I'm glad everyone is ok. frkn scary all the same.

You probably have heaps of damage and lots to fix up, all cause of some stupid drunk driver. It's not fair.

The driver ploughed through our fence and into the bedroom where my wife and 5 year old boy were sleeping. (No black marks to indicate braking)

He then did a reverse burnout backwards escape attempt and smashed cubby and the remainder of the wall.

Stuck on rubble and bogged the driver ran away.





This was our 5 month olds cot until very recently. We moved her into her own bedroom.

..... Dummer way


....classic

WOW - there certainly are easier ways to earn your 5 minutes of fame...

Seriously though, great to hear the family is all ok.

P platers (and yes I know I was one once)

Great to see everyone is ok, mate build in some bollards along your fence line, this thing happens alot, see it on the news all the time

Bloody disgusting that the bloke ran away. To not have the balls to stick around and help is inexcusable.

Farkin ell! The 1st news pic on the link doesn't do the full story justice.

Sooo lucky. Just saw the path the car took and the totem tennis/soccer rig a few feet away too.

Any truth to the pizzed driver or media running first facts later?

Either way if it's anything other than accelerator stuck I hope they cane the luttel fkr BIG TIME!

Get a few lotto tix this week,.. and another nice big palm tree planted between road and house too!

Good news story in the end ay Elroy.

Glad to hear no one was hurt.

If the driver was drunk, his insurance is wiped.

I hope you have a good home insurance company and they should be the first people you contact tomorrow morning.

Start gathering your evidence including police reports now.

If the bloke tried to do a runner it should be treated as a "hit and run" offence and I hope they stitch him up good.

I'd wish you could find were the driver lived.
We've all made mistakes on the road at some stage,but like everyone else I'm glad the family is ok.

Once it's all blown over, imagine knocking on their front door with bubs and saying, this is what you nearly hit. That would sober anyone up, and their mates.

No more burnouts hopefully.

So Elroy, how the **** did you stop from putting this peanut in hospital???
Very glad to hear the family is OK but hopefully this type of thing will stop some other nong doing it to someone else!!!

ka43 said...

So Elroy, how the **** did you stop from putting this peanut in hospital???

Don't get me wrong. I'm very angry.

I didn't get home until 2 hrs after the collision and had some time to make up a plan and do my best to help wifey and the family and not become a news story myself.

I'm typically outcome motivated rather the reactionary.

Wifey's brothers and a few of our male friends had to be encouraged to show restraint.

When I arrived home and saw that the damage was four times worse than I thought possible for the position of our house, I was simply very happy to know the kids and wife were alive and OK.

The damage is a lot worse than it looks from the outside. It's not just a hole in the side brick wall.
It was a massive impact taken by a big part of the house. The whole back of the house, 2 rooms and a bathroom, have moved and quite a few walls are cracked through from one end to the other and are on the piss.
Looks more like earthquake damage.

It was 24 hours until I realised how very close it was to disaster. Wifey went out for a few drinks last night to try and sort through the day a bit.
I looked through photos of our destroyed bedroom taken by a friend just after the collision and before anything had been moved or cleaned up. There were bits of house brick smashed throughout our bedroom, including on top of the bed, and the cot and the wardrobe door were rammed across the room.
Felt sick looking through them.

It's very fortunate that everyone is here, alive and well.

Best situation is the little selfish **** gets a hefty fine, loses licence for a year and most importantly learns to only do that sh!t on Xbox! And recommends the same to the mates.

Worst case is the little **** continues to shirk responsibility and grows up to be a total waste of oxygen and a danger to everyone around him.

Pity they encouraged the tuuurd to return to the scene. Book would have been closed, thrown and punishment on a BIG scale automatically.

If @rsewipe doesn't have the nurries to come and (genuinely) make peace and apologise to you and your fam, the pizz off from the scene should be noted LOUDLY in any court proceedings IMO.




Barry is 100% on the $$$.
Kw restrictions for first 2 years minimum for any vehicle not driven during work hours.

It's is so obvious it is laughable that we don't have it when there is so many ads and $$$ spent focus on road safety.

evlPanda said...

Raise the driving age to 21.

I say raise the DRINKING age to 21... far less aggro and B.S. of a weekend...

(also agree with the Kw limit too - it used to be that a 4cyl car would be slow - now with WRX etc they too can fang around).