Welcome home to a sausage sandwitch

[Gob]

A family has been left living in half a house for five days after a neighbour reversed her car into their kitchen.



Jose and Tony Poole, of Garden Close, Royston in Hertfordshire, were on holiday in Fuerteventura at the time of the accident on Saturday afternoon.

However, son Nick was house-sitting when he heard "an enormous bang".



No-one was hurt, but the car remains embedded in the house while the family waits for the insurance company to inspect it.

Nick Poole said: "I had just left the kitchen after making a sausage sandwich when the car came crashing through the wall.

"I immediately ran outside and luckily the driver was fine, but obviously shocked."



He described it as a "freak accident".

"I heard lots of revving and then the car must have just shot out of her driveway opposite, across the road, through my parents' brick wall and into the kitchen."

[Long Run]

I could understand this if it was a Domino's driver -- they're under lots of pressure to get the pizza there in 30 minutes, but the neighbor?

[Reality Bytes]

The article I read said the car was an automatic and and started over revving on it's own so the driver went to put it in park which you have to go through reverse to do and the car just shot backwards. Thing is though I drive an automatic, and I too need to go through reverse to park, however my foot would be firmly on the brake at the very least and probably the handbrake would be on as well so I can't figure out how on earth this could have happened - unless the driver wasn't used to an automatic and pressed the accelerator rather than the brake *shrugs*

[oldr_n_wsr]

Incompetant driver.
Incompetant insurance company taking 5+ days to inspect this accident.

[Guinevere]

SandWHAT?

The Earl would be displeased.

[MajGenl.Meade]

I guess he heard an enormous banger!? (oh and good catch Guin)

Maggie