Car ploughs into front of house.A MIDLAND dad last night said he feels "lucky to be alive" after a car veered off the road and ploughed into the front of his house. Kevin Priest was left stunned stun tr.v. stunned, stun·ning, stuns 1. To daze or render senseless, by or as if by a blow. 2. To overwhelm or daze with a loud noise. 3. when the vehicle crashed into his living room wall in St Luke's St Luke's is an area in the London Borough of Islington in Greater London, close to the borders with the London Borough of Hackney and the City of London, near the Barbican and Shoreditch. The closest tube station is Old Street. Close, Rowley Regis Rowley Regis is a town in the Sandwell borough of the West Midlands county, and a part of the Black Country. It started life centuries ago as a small village which surrounded the parish church of St Giles. , leaving a gaping two metre hole. He and son Matthew, 13, were alone in the house yesterday afternoon, but escaped injury as they were upstairs. And section leader Kevin said it was the THIRD accident in two years outside the semi-detached home which he shares with wife Liz and and 16 yearold son Steven. "I feel lucky to be alive in that we weren't in the living room, but I'm angry that residents living on this road have had accidents but no-one is helping us," he said. "A car just missed our house two years ago and last year a woman hit a lamppost right outside." The female driver hurt her arm and a female passenger sustained a back injury in yesterday's accident.. CAPTION(S): CRASH: Dad Kevin Priest with sons Steven (16) and Matthew (13) and mum Liz |
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