How not to please thy neighbour!

ER24 paramedics responded to the report of a serious motor vehicle accident on the Mt Edgecombe Estate last Thursday afternoon just before 5pm. Initial reports were that one car was perched upon the roof of another in a residence. This obviously has the potential to cause serious injury.

When paramedics arrived they found that an Audi quite literally perched on the roof of a top-of-the-range Toyota Fortuna 4x4.

The accident occurred when the owner (Mr Bordinksy) of 11 Radcliffe Close in Mt Edgecombe Estate parked his Audi in his driveway, which is angled up from the road. When he went inside he said that he suddenly heard his car alarm going off. When he went to investigate he saw that his car had disappeared, however he could still hear the alarm going off. When he got to the bottom of the driveway, his fears of a stolen car changed to horror when he saw a break in the wooden fence which thereafter drops down a steep retaining wall and into his neighbour at 12 Radcliffe Close's driveway.

When Mr Bordinsky went and peered over the fence, he found his car balancing precariously on the roof of the Toyota. "I couldn't believe my eyes!" said Bordinsky, who also highlighted that this is not the first time that this had occurred. In the previous months his sister, who also drives an Audi, parked her car in the driveway and it too had rolled back, but was caught by the very same fence!

The neighbour, known to us only as Garrith, seemed sympathetic to the situation and was extremely grateful that his 10 month old son was not playing in the driveway as he has been known to do. "Nobody means for something like this to happen and our insurances can sort the matter out. Im just grateful that nobody was hurt" he said.

Radcliffe Close resembled a disaster zone with police, fire department, ambulances and paramedics all congregated on the small residential road, as amused onlookers watched the recovery of the Audi by breakdown operators.