Linden house collapses after car crashes into it

May 14, 2014 News

A man and his wife were early yesterday morning forced to run for their lives, after a speeding car slammed into their house and sent it crashing to the ground. A nearby utility pole was also uprooted by the out-of-control car, plunging the community into blackout.
Steve Hollingsworth, of 404 One Mile, Wismar, Linden, related that it was about 05:30 hrs yesterday that the incident that has now rendered him homeless occurred.

Steve Hollingsworth with his wife and son

“I had just had a bath and was drying my skin. I was preparing to go to work, when I heard this vehicle coming in the distance, with brakes screeching. Well I thought was a truck, so I tell me li’l son, truck coming, because he like see the trucks and I had just taken him to the window, but fortunately he moved from the window and went back on the bed. But I was about to go back to the window, and by the time I reach back the whole house coming down.”
Hollingsworth said that he is thankful that he as well as his wife and child escaped with minor injuries.
“I get a lash in me head with one of the beams that fall down, and the baby got a cut in his head, and my wife she got some injury to her knees.”
The man said that he immediately took his family to the hospital where they were treated and sent home.
Hollingsworth’s mother, who lives nearby, said she also heard the vehicle approaching and then heard a terrible noise, in the vicinity of her son’s house, and she immediately thought of her son.
“Then right away I hear the phone ring and was he telling me that he going to the hospital, because a car just slammed into the house, and they get li’l injuries. I was in shock, but I thank God it wasn’t worse…nobody ain’t lose their life or anything. Even the driver of that car I pray that he is okay.”
The driver of the car (licence number PPP 9432) was admitted to the Linden Hospital Complex, where he was administered emergency treatment for his injuries.
“I need me house to live in, and up to now nobody ain’t telling me nothing. Right now I’m trying to remain calm, but I need my house,” Hollingsworth declared.
Apart from the destroyed house, Hollingsworth claims to have lost a 40-inch flat screen television, bed and other miscellaneous items. He could not at the time, however, estimate his losses.

Hollingsworth’s car (seen next to rubble) remained intact

A hire car operator, Hollingsworth was thankful that apart from a damaged bumper, his car which was parked in the yard next to the house was intact.

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