A Metford couple is devastated after a driver lost control of a ute and careened into the font yard of a home on Sunday, seriously damaging two cars.
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Anthony and Katie Swaffer were getting ready for bed at their house on the corner of Shanck Drive and Chelmsford Drive at about 9pm when they heard a driver lose control of a vehicle outside.
Mr Swaffer said he believed the ute had been racing around the area.
“I heard a big bang out the front,” he said.
“I thought they went through our shed.”
Mr Swaffer ran out the front door and found his electric blue Mitsubishi Triton, a birthday present only two months old, pushed into his wife’s Subaru Forester. Both of the cars’ rear-ends were twisted and smashed.
Aside from the skid marks through his front lawn, there was no sign of the other car.
“A couple of the boys from across the road heard him park around the corner,” Mr Swaffer said.
“I ran up but he drove off.”
Mr Swaffer said he and a neighbour got into a car and followed the direction of the runaway vehicle.
He said they found the white Holden Commodore ute set alight at the bottom of Turton Street, near Victoria Street train station, about 10pm. Green P-plates were still attached.
Mr Swaffer said it was the same car he saw near his home just after the incident.
Mrs Swaffer, who relied on her car to drive between her multiple jobs, is now trying to secure transport so she can keep working.
“The cars are insured but I didn’t have hire car [on the policy] because I thought if one got hit we’d always have the other,” she said.
“It’s a regular thing to see hoons around here.
“They take out these street signs almost every weekend."
“Just half an hour ago someone was doing burnouts past through the school zone [while the school zone was active],” Mr Swaffer added.