Police are on the hunt for a driver and his passenger after a high-speed crash in Blackwood, South Australia, in the early hours of this morning, which has left residents and business owners with an almighty clean-up.
The incident unfolded just before 2am on Main Road, when a speeding driver lost control of their vehicle, causing it to become airborne and crash across a footpath, taking out shrubs, letterboxes, and a fence before going through a business’s wall.
The Volkswagen then collided with a parked car, before ending up crashed sideways, in the living room of a nearby unit.
“All of a sudden I heard this huge bang and I thought it was the centrepiece in the road… they knock that over all the time and I thought that’s what it was,” witness Hazel Walker said.
The driver and one of the passengers fled the scene but a 23-year-old female passenger was still there when emergency services arrived and was subsequently charged with disorderly behaviour and hindering police.
Residents along Main Road say it’s not the first serious crash in the 50 kilometre an hour zone and fear it’s only a matter of time before someone is badly hurt.
“It’s shocking, it’s absolutely shocking but they speed along here all the time, but there’s nothing to stop them,” Walker said.
This article was produced with the assistance of 9ExPress.
