Miracle escape as ute hits house
Published: November 11, 2005
TWO women miraculously escaped injury after a bizarre vehicle accident last night.
Jill Nichols left the office in her Blackmans Bay house seconds before hearing a loud crash shortly after 5pm yesterday.
“I heard a bang and thought the house was falling in,” she said.
Ms Nichols saw a utility had driven straight into her house, smashing the deck and stopping less than a metre from her front door.
The window of her office at the front of the house was also smashed.
The only thing stopping the utility from doing more damage was her own car parked in the driveway.
“I have nine lives and I think of spent one or two,” she said last night, as both vehicles were being removed from her mangled deck.
Ms Nichols said she rushed to the aid of the driver, who she thought was injured.
After calling 000, she returned to see the man - who she described as being in his late-50s - nearly out of the Toyota Landcruiser and apparently uninjured.
Ms Nichols’ home is hardly visible at the end of Mirramar Park, a steep cul-de-sac leading to the cliff edge - from the top of the street only the tree tops can be seen.
When the driver failed to stop at the end of the street, a witness said, the early model four-wheel drive became airborne, crashing into Ms Nichols’ parked car and then the house.
Neighbour Margie McDuff was just metres away in the garden when she heard the utility coming down the road.
Ms McDuff said it had become airborne and sent the boulders in the garden flying.
“I just froze,” she said.
“It’s a wonder it didn’t hit me.”
Tasmania Police said the driver of the four-wheel-drive was helping them with their inquiries.
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