Two sisters narrowly escaped death after a van thought to be manned by a 15-year-old ploughed into their home, burying one of them under rubble while they were watching TV.
Georgina Smith, 54, remained in hospital last night (Friday, November 24) with a fractured cheekbone, jaw and eye socket, and a bleed on the brain after she was trapped in her bungalow in Stoke-on-Trent. Her sister Kerry was thrown from the sofa during the "bloodbath".
The pair have been forced to leave their home of 44 years following the incident on Sunday (November 19), reports Stoke-on-TrentLive.
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Kerry, 56, said: “We were just sitting watching TV. She [Georgina] was sitting at one end of the settee and me the other. I heard this bang and I was on my knees. I looked back and I could see this van but I couldn’t see George. I had to crawl to the hallway to reach the landline. My mobile was somewhere under the rubble.
“I called the emergency services. The operator was asking me questions like ‘Is she breathing?’. She wasn't just breathing, she was screaming. There was a pool of blood, it was a bloodbath, it was my leg that was bleeding.
“The emergency services had to dig her out from the rubble. I had to go out to the ambulance without shoes or anything. I got in the ambulance but I wouldn’t leave until I saw my sister come out.”
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Royal Stoke consultants are monitoring Georgina’s bleed on the brain and may operate once the swelling has reduced. Kerry added: “It’s not going to be a quick process.”
Staffordshire Police revealed the occupants of the Ford Tourneo fled the crime scene. They later arrested and bailed two 16-year-old boys and a 15-year-old girl on suspicion of aggravated vehicle taking, and a 15-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl on suspicion of dangerous driving and aggravated vehicle taking.
Kerry added: “There will be no licence and no insurance and they must have been going at some speed to cause that devastation.
“Forty-four years of memories in that home are destroyed now. My mum and dad’s ashes are in the bungalow. There are things which are sentimental. It’s obliterated. It’s like a bomb’s hit, never mind a van.”
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