A family was saved from a car crashing into a living room after they decided to head into the dining room to eat cheesecake.
Mother-of-two Sam Sorci, and husband Brim, had just returned home to Bartlett Street, Caerphilly, with her mum, dad, sister and sister-in-law, after a meal. They were in the front living room when they decided to head into the rear of the house for dessert.
Ten minutes into the sweet the family heard a loud crash and discovered a silver Volkswagon Golf had come through their bay window. The crash happened at around 7pm on Monday, April 2.
Sam, 43, said she initially thought it was her cat causing trouble, but quickly realised that no pet could make such a noise.
She said: “It was my son Loki, who was in the conservatory putting his wellies on, who saw it first and said ‘car in the house’.”
The family quickly ran out to the rear garden and called the emergency services. The police arrived and it was several hours until the family were allowed back into their home.
Sam added: “I was an absolute wreck. I know we were very, very, lucky but I’m really angry and upset that someone has driven their car into my house. It hasn’t really set in.”
A Gwent Police spokeswoman said: “Gwent Police attended the scene, along with South Wales Fire and Rescue and the Ambulance Service. Fortunately, no one was hurt during the incident and no one needed any medical attention.
“A 35-year-old man from the Cardiff area was arrested at the scene and has been charged with driving a motor vehicle on a road with excess alcohol and driving without a valid test certificate.
“He is due to appear before Gwent Magistrates’ Court on April 24.”
A nasty incident but the family was lucky that they were not in the front room. Also pure luck that no pedestrians were on that corner as it is a very busy thouroughfare at that time of day.
Very Lucky indeed, proof we need more police patrols stopping drink drivers
Yes, policing has changed over the years and I don’t think for the better. As a young biker and then car driver I was stopped by regular police patrols several times per year. Usually this was just a present documents at the police station affair., My last conviction for speeding was in 1986.
This was preventative medicine, everyone knew that police were around and vigilant. Being stopped and questioned was extremely likely. This regime led my generation to stop drinking and driving and concentrate on road safety when in a car or riding a bike.
All gone now, last week I watched a bloke on a bicycle, at night, no lights, whizz through a red traffic light at the Clive Street junction at around 30 mph. Years ago he would have been stopped by a copper in the town for lack of lights, if nothing else. Today he will probably keep on chancing it until a lorry turns him into a raspberry jam colured stain on the road.
It’s disgusting how things have changed, we also need a change in drink driver legislation. It should be a zero limit that way then there would be no confusion over the amount people think they can drink. Couple that with more police stopping drivers and I’m sure that we would see an even more of a decrease
Yes,their presence was definitely a deterrent back in those days.
Looking at the photograph not only were the family living in the house lucky not to be killed or seriously injured,but also the driver.
A metal pole can be seen sticking through the drivers door window.
They will argue that they have not got sufficient funding to resource this – but they could afford to host their recent awsrds ceremony at the Celtic Manor….