“I was just waiting A topical issue. Five to seven,” he said.
“I had had my tea and was sitting doing my knitting, and bang!
“(I said) ‘Oh, I didn’t think we were going to have thunder tonight,’ and then another bang and then I opened the door and I thought, ‘fire.’ I guess it was all the bright light shining inside the car.
It was the night of Monday May 29 and a Holden dual cab four-wheel drive vehicle had driven through a neighbour’s garden bed across the street from her, mounted the canal on the ‘outside her home, it went over Mrs Webb’s garden beds and fence before crashing into a corner of her Wentworth St home.
“It’s a double brick wall, but he went through both,” he said.
“Sparks were flying everywhere.
“Then his smell. I don’t know if it was motor oil or water or heat or what, but the smell was very strong.”
Mrs Webb said it was lucky she wasn’t sitting in the part of the house the car hit.
“I have a telly out there and I often sit out there,” he said.
“It’s not a nice feeling.”
Mrs Webb said neighbours, whose garden the vehicle had just driven through, called the police and ran to her aid.
He said the driver of the vehicle was walking outside the house when he looked outside.
Victoria Police Sergeant Mark Phillips said a Shepparton man in his 50s had a suspected medical episode while driving on Hovell Cres before his vehicle mounted the pavement and crashed into the house.
He was treated at the scene for minor injuries and his license will be reviewed.
No charges have been filed.
Ms. Webb is waiting for a structural assessment of her home and for power to be reconnected.
The incident follows her and family’s properties being damaged during the floods last October, and she has a message for the universe, and drivers in particular.
“Don’t do it again. Don’t give me any more trouble. It is enough. A lot of cleaning,” he said.
