Thanks everyone for your replies and thoughts.
It's been helpful to get reactions from fellow members in the seabreeze online pub.
Car was finally moved from the property yesterday by the owners. 40 hours after they were told on the night of the crash that it was their responsibility to move it.
We spent hours on the phone to police, lawyers and insurance to find out what we could reasonable do to move it.
Insurance said not to move it yourself for reason a b and c.
Police said there is nothing we can do. You'll have to wait until the owners are ready to move it.
Lawyers said contact owners, tell them they have x amount of time to move it otherwise it will be moved onto the verge.
I was stunned someone would knowingly and willingly leave their car for an extended period of time at the spot where it nearly killed fellow humans. It was distressing and offensive for wifey, her family and our son to have the smashed car and the associated bad memories on our property.
Wife's Dad called a Joondalup councilor earlier in the afternoon to discuss the hoon behaviour on our street. What's she gonna do I thought? She came by late saturday arvo and was most helpful. We asked her about the car still being there. She called the ranger. Between themselves they worked out that the boot was on council land and put a sticker on that part of the car. Then the ranger went to the owners house and gave them 24 hours to move it otherwise the city would do it and charge them accordingly. He rang back as promised and said the owners father agreed to move the car within 24 hours.
19 hours later I used my tools and helped the tow truck driver extricate the owners car out from the rubble .
Without going into details the story continues with a verbal exchange, when an unapologetic owner of the crashed car arrived to pay the tow truck driver, after the hard work had been done, and a wife that was deeply unimpressed at how long it took to simply ring a tow truck.
It really was unbelievable!
Anyway here's 3 more photos of the scene.
The wall that was pushed over when the driver tried to reverse out and escape the scene.
Some damage to the house.
Media. They each introduced themselves brimming with confidence like I should know them and be a bit starstruck. I don't watch commercial TV and didn't recognise any of the reporters. They were trying to empathize to get more information. I would have happily given them more info but I found them to be pushy, irksome and false and didn't want to be in their company for much longer. I asked them to move along now and I took some photos of them as they left.
That's all the action shots. Now it's onto the long process of getting the house back something close to how it was last Friday morning.
