I heard this report on the news this morning. It’s about a family injured while sleeping in their beds this morning when a 16 year old drove a car into their cottage.
Yes, you read right, a 16 year old drove a car into their cottage, causing rubble to fall on them while they slept.
The home owner said
“We were sleeping as normal and suddenly there was a big crash, bright lights and the front of the house was coming in.
“The first thing I did was check my partner and our baby. Everybody was fine, with just a few bumps and bruises from flying debris.
“Luckily the baby’s cot was on the other side of the room. If it had been next to the window, I dread to think what would have happened.
“Our bedroom wall and window, as well as the front door, have been demolished.”
Now, what seemed strange to me when I heard this on the radio was the charge laid at the driver. He’s 16, so isn’t old enough to a)own a car (so by definition it must have been stolen – or ‘taken without permission’), b)hold even a provisional licence, let alone a full one, or c)have insurance.
And yet, do you know what they’d charged him with?
“Failing to stop at the scene of an accident”
How nuts is that?
I liked this quote from the homeowner too –
“When you have a young baby in the house it can be rather hard to get to sleep, but when a car comes through the bedroom wall it does rather wake you up.”
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