A plea has been made for the bollards which protect a house in Kirkby Stephen from vehicles crashing into it to be replaced as soon as possible.
Last Monday, police were called at 7am following a report that a Vauxhall Insignia had taken out two bollards and had come to rest in the doorway of a house in High Street. The driver suffered facial injuries and was taken to Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle.
The bollards which the driver hit had “definitely, without a doubt” stopped the car from going straight into the house, said Pauline Proud, and her 91-year-old mother, Ena, who have seen their town centre home struck by numerous vehicles over the last half century.
Bollards were erected after a crash in 1998 in which a tractor ploughed through their dining room wall. Before that the house was hit by milk tanker.
Last November, a further bollard was taken out by a passing motorist.
