TEWANTIN local Olive Donaldson was surprised to return home this morning to find a car had driven into the front of her cottage on Poinciana Avenue.
According to an eye-witness account by neighbour Merv Stewart, the driver of the car had been an elderly man, who, parked by the side of the road had pulled out in front of a van travelling along the same road.
Mr Stewart said that after hitting the van, the man accelerated instead of breaking, sending his car across the road, through Olive’s front fence and hitting her house.
Mr Stewart attended to the elderly man until an ambulance arrived on scene. He also swept the road of glass and helped to slow traffic. The driver, who was cut out of the vehicle, has been taken to hospital.
The van was towed from the scene.
Ms Donaldson, 86, who was out volunteering at Parkyn Hut at the time of the incident, had received a phone call from a friend asking her if she was aware she had ‘visitors’.
“When I got the call I thought she meant someone was parked around the back of my house in the carport,” Ms Donaldson said.
“I’ve had a run of bad luck lately,” she added quite perplexed by the situation.
Having lived in her house all her life, Ms Donaldson is grateful that she is insured.
“I never go a day without being insured,” she said.
