House Crash Miracle escape
Published: February 22, 2007
Road accidents are never good news, so when a massive artic smashes into a house in the small hours and half-demolishes the frontage, your heart sinks.
So it’s nice to report on what amounts to a miracle in Macduff, when a sleeping woman was inches from being joined in her bed by 40 tons of steel (plus most of the wall of the house). Although the windows were left hanging in the shattered dormer, the glass did not break – a miracle in itself, sparing her from flying splinters.
And although the family’s life was turned upside down in an instant – half of their home a no-go area, and possessions damaged or destroyed – the father was looking on the positive side, beyond the wreckage, to note that you can fix buildings, but not people.
This is one article where the pictures really do tell the story, and we have some amazing ones in this week’s ‘Banffshire Journal’.
As always, there is a temptation to find out whose fault it was; in this case, some fingers are pointing to the roads department of the council for not having their finger on the pulse – or their finger on the frost.
Having spoken to people who came a cropper in the extreme conditions in Macduff that morning, is it fair to expect the council to be everywhere all the time? Folk would complain pretty quickly about big council taxes if gritting crews were being paid to roam 24 hours a day on deserted roads, just in case of freak weather, which would seem to have been too localised to have been predicted in any forecast, and too quick to make a call-out practical.
Accidents will happen; but that is little consolation to a Macduff family whose house is in direct line of fire any time a vehicle fails to take the corner at the top of Skene Street.
In this case, who knows if the driver could have done anything to avoid the accident; but there were plenty of people driving too fast last week on our roads.
You just never know what’s round the corner.
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