WATCH: Drunk driver wrecks family's home with 3am crash
Wendy Peterson and her five kids inside their ruined Blikkiesdorp home. Picture: Jack LestradePicture: Jack LestradeThe family's shack is exposed to the weather and thieves in Delft. Picture: Jack LestradeCape Town - A mother of five in Delft, an area already rife with gang violence, is at her wits’ end after a drunk driver rammed into her home. Residents of Blikkiesdorp claim gang violence has killed 62 people since the beginning of the year.
Wendy Petersen, 41, says a drunk driver in a Toyota Avanza crashed into her home just after 3am. The mother was lying on a single bed in her home, which has been ripped open like a tin can. “Look what happened now, I heard screaming and someone call ‘Wendy’. Toe ek wakker skrik, is die Avanza bo op my en twee van my kinders. I grabbed and pulled my five-year-old, Johnny, and my 10-year-old, Nicole, out. This man who drove into us was so drunk and the police didn’t arrest him. They let him go, saying this isn’t a matter for the police, and that [the driver] must pay for the damages.”“We don’t even have extra blankets for the children and it’s raining,” the mom says.
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