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Bangers and SMASH! Man's lucky escape after car ploughed through his kitchen one minute after he finished cooking sausages
Nick Poole had just taken the first bite out of a sausage sandwich when he heard a huge crash as a Citroen C5 reversed into the house in Royston, Herefordshire
A homeowner had a lucky escape - after a car ploughed through his kitchen wall minutes after he had cooked his sausage dinner.
Nick Poole had just taken the first bite out of a sausage sandwich when he heard a huge crash as a Citroen C5 reversed into the house.
Nick, 40, was ‘incredibly lucky’ not to have been hurt as he had been making dinner just one minute earlier.
Car repair firm owner Nick was house-sitting for his parents, who were holidaying in Fuerteventura, when the bizarre smash happened.
He said the noise was so loud he thought a plane had hit the house.
Nick said: ‘I had just cooked some sausages and sat down to eat in the lounge when I heard this loud bang. I thought at first the tray I had cooked with had fallen down but this really loud crashing noise went on for a while.
'I ran into the kitchen and saw the car inside. It was just unbelievable. I am proud to say my first thought was for the driver and I went to see if she was OK. I could smell gas. The car had burst the mains and the water pipes and the kitchen was flooded.
'The woman’s husband rushed over from across the street and we got her out of the car. Thankfully she wasn’t injured but she was very shaken.'
Nick said his parents had only moved into the house at Christmas - and had just fitted a new kitchen.
Emergency services were called to the house on Saturday afternoon, where they evacuated the whole street.
A spokeswoman for Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said: 'The gas main was leaking gas so we established an exclusion zone and we made the area safe until the arrival of the gas board.'
Hertfordshire police and the National Grid also visited the property to make the scene safe.
