A Dunfermline pensioner’s conservatory is to be demolished after a learner driver crashed a car into it.
The 98-year-old, who wishes to remain anonymous, was sitting in the same room shortly before a car mounted the pavement and ploughed through the fence at around 7pm on Monday.
A crane is needed to remove the vehicle, which is embedded into the side of the house at the corner of Kerrisk Drive and Aberdour Road.
It is understood that the learner driver of the vehicle had only been insured to use the car earlier that day.
The man’s nephew, who had travelled from Kilmarnock to help with the clean-up, told The Courier it was the third time a car had crashed into a house owned by his uncle.
Car crashes into home owned by Dunfermline pensioner
He said: “He’s probably getting used to it by now, as it’s the third time that a car has crashed into his home.
“Back in the late 1970s, a car crashed through the front window of this house, while a similar thing happened when he lived in Torryburn many years ago.
“So we can say it’s third time unlucky.
“Firefighters have been here to try and pull the car out, but it’s pulling the brickwork away, so recovery has been halted.
“It’s feared that if they pull the car further out, the conservatory is in danger of collapsing.
“We’ve been told a crane will now have to be brought in to lift the car out of the garden.
“The conservatory has now been condemned and will have to be demolished too.”
The family member also said that documents supplied by the learner driver showed that the car had only been insured for them to drive earlier that day.
“I noted that the car had only been insured for the driver just before 9am on Monday,” said the nephew.
“Thankfully, nobody has been injured. Another day, and it could have been quite different.”
Police Scotland has been contacted by The Courier for comment.
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