{"id":216932,"date":"2023-11-25T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=216932"},"modified":"2023-11-25T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T18:00:23","slug":"i-was-thrown-from-my-sofa-when-van-driven-by-15-year-old-ploughed-into-my-living-room-now-im-homeless-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/world-news\/i-was-thrown-from-my-sofa-when-van-driven-by-15-year-old-ploughed-into-my-living-room-now-im-homeless-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"I was thrown from my sofa when van 'driven by 15-year-old' ploughed into my living room… now I'm homeless | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

TWO sisters were badly injured after a van driven by a 15-year-old ploughed into their living room.<\/p>\n

Georgina Smith, 54, suffered a fractured cheekbone, jaw and eye socket and a bleed on the brain after being trapped under rubble following the\u00a0crash. <\/p>\n


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Her sister Kerry Smith, who has multiple sclerosis, was also thrown from the sofa.<\/p>\n

She described having to crawl to the hallway to call 999 on her landline in the moments following the impact, after her mobile phone disappeared under the debris. <\/p>\n

The pair will both now have to move out of the home in Trentham, North Staffordshire, which has been in the family for 44 years.<\/p>\n

Ashes<\/span> belonging to their mother and father are still inside the bungalow.<\/p>\n

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Kerry, aged 56, said: \u201cWe were just sitting watching TV. She was sitting at one end of the settee and me the other. I heard this bang and I was on my knees.<\/p>\n

"I looked back and I could see this van but I couldn\u2019t see George. I had to crawl to the hallway to reach the landline. My mobile was somewhere under the rubble.<\/p>\n

\u201cI called the emergency services. The operator was asking me questions like \u2018Is she breathing?\u2019. She wasn't just breathing, she was screaming."<\/p>\n

She continued: "There was a pool of blood, it was a bloodbath, it was my leg that was bleeding.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe emergency services had to dig her out from the rubble. I had to go out to the ambulance without shoes or anything. I got in the ambulance but I wouldn\u2019t leave until I saw my sister come out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Royal Stoke consultants are monitoring Georgina\u2019s bleed on the brain and may operate once the swelling has reduced.<\/p>\n

Kerry added: \u201cIt\u2019s not going to be a quick process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Staffordshire Police have revealed that the occupants of the Ford Tourneo had fled from the Pacific Road crime scene following the incident in the early hours of Sunday, November 19. <\/p>\n

Cops said they later arrested and bailed two 16-year-old boys and a 15-year-old girl on suspicion of aggravated vehicle taking, and a 15-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl on suspicion of dangerous driving and aggravated vehicle taking.<\/p>\n

Kerry added: \u201cThere will be no licence and no insurance and they must have been going at some speed to cause that devastation.<\/p>\n

\u201cForty-four years of memories in that home are destroyed now. My mum and dad\u2019s ashes are in the bungalow. <\/p>\n

"There are things which are sentimental. It\u2019s obliterated. It\u2019s like a bomb\u2019s hit, never mind a van.\u201d<\/p>\n


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