Shock as car hits wall of house

A HENGROVE resident has been left counting the cost after a car ploughed into a boundary wall and part of a garage.

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The home in Alverstoke where a driver smashed into a boundary wall and part of a garage

(Pics: Paul Gillis)

The owner of the home on Alverstoke, who has asked not to be named, said she was at home at about 4.30pm on Thursday when she heard a “mighty bang - I think the whole neighbourhood heard it!”

She explained the driver - a nearby neighbour - was apparently turning left into the road from Bamfield and, unfortunately, may have misjudged the turn or had a medical episode.

She said: “I went out the front door and what I saw was horrific. The damage was immense. The car had gone through the wall and into the garage and then appears to have bounced back.