Nearly Killed And Now Homeless, Couple Who Lost Home After BMW Crash in Telford

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00:00My name's David Gaunt and my partner Patricia Morris, we are the occupants of 6 Wenlock Court

00:07when it got hit on Sunday morning with a BMW coming through into the living room.

00:13We were in a bit of a hurry because we were going out with family in the afternoon,

00:18normally we wouldn't be bothered, we've taken this time. I was sat on the sofa, Patricia says

00:24come on, we're going to get the pots done. She went into the kitchen, I put the iPad in the rack,

00:31stood up, walked into the kitchen, just picked one plate up and then there was an almighty bang,

00:36sounded like an explosion, the whole building shook. Patricia went into panic mode because

00:43she thought we'd been bombed. I didn't know what the hell it was, I thought the ceiling had fallen.

00:50I walked to the door and looked and I saw this car patrolling into the building and the sofa that I

00:56would have been sat on was up against the opposite wall. The lampstands were everywhere, there were

01:01brick, dust bricks, the coffee table disappeared under rubble and that, quite honestly, was just

01:10in shock. Two gentlemen off the street came running and they said we need to get you out

01:17of the house and she's saying who wants to bomb us and I said it's not a bomb, it's a car

01:25and they said we need to get you out for safety because the services at that time weren't there

01:31and somebody phoned the services. They took us out, we went out, she had no shoes on her feet

01:37because all we got was what we stood in, I'd got some light slippers on and they took us over

01:44the wall to the ambulance and we sat in there. The next minute the services turned up, police,

01:52ambulance, fire and we sat in for a while until the ambulance made sure we wasn't physically hurt.

02:01But Housing Plus put us up sort of that night in the Ramada at the town centre. We had two nights

02:14in there and then we couldn't stay there because they were booked up so they removed us in at the

02:20Sapphire House and they said we'll be here till December the 3rd. Now it's completely sealed off,

02:27everything's upstairs and there's no stairs, I mean I can understand what they're saying but

02:32we have nothing personal whatsoever. We've had to go to shops, buy some clothes to walk around in,

02:39get some shoes, boots for Patricia, but we've got all this in the house but we can't get to it

02:46and I don't know how long that's going to be and we don't have massive savings at all

02:52so I don't know where they expect that we're going to keep financing the money.

03:00I've spent days on phones telling people for different reasons like cancelling the sky,

03:05cancelling the water, cancelling the gas and the electric and all the other utilities at Hughes.

03:13I don't even know how I got through the day that day. We rent the property from

03:18Homes Plus, lovely people, never had a problem with them, they've done whatever we want, we've

03:24kept the house clean for them and we never in this area thought that we ever needed home insurance

03:32because we felt secure to be honest. We're struggling, we're struggling at the moment,

03:38not body-wise but health and head-wise. I felt worse today than I felt the day

03:47it happened because everything seems to be going on and on and you don't shut down,

03:55excuse me, you don't shut down so you don't sleep very well.

04:01On social media some of it's very insensitive and I know some of them make light of it but

04:07it don't really help us because you just relive it again and you think somebody's been stupid.

04:17I don't think people realise the devastation and the aftermath when this has happened. You just

04:25think a car's gone in the house, it don't stop there, it just ain't stopped for five, six days

04:30yet and I don't think it will for a while and if somebody said to me would you go back there

04:36tomorrow, right now I couldn't be an answer.