A woman was left with the mangled wreckage of a 4×4 in her garden for two weeks while she waited for her insurance to tow the vehicle.
Josephine was awakened by the sound of an allegedly drunk driver crashing into the back fence of her home in Gladstone, central Queensland.
“It was late at night, I had gone to bed and all of a sudden I heard these three massive explosions. So I jumped out of bed and ran over here and saw this car in our yard,” she said. A current affair Monday.
It appears that the driver left the road – perhaps due to a flat tire – on an embankment and landed in Joséphine’s garden.
He has since been charged with drunk driving.
A crashed car (pictured) remained in the yard of Josephine’s Gladstone home for two weeks after an allegedly drunk driver crashed into her fence.
Josephine claims the driver appeared remorseful immediately after the accident and promised to collect the car the next day and repair his fence.
However, the car remained in place for two weeks after the accident, with Josephine growing increasingly frustrated.
When the driver did not respond to her calls, Joséphine turned to the municipality and her insurer, Honey Insurance, to have the car removed from her property.
Josephine quickly learned that she was not allowed to touch the car as it remained the property of the driver, despite being written off, and was half on council land.
“The police say the council should (remove the car). The council should say that the owner should do this. The insurance company says anyone else should do it, not them,” Josephine said.
On top of all that, Josephine said her insurance required her to pay a $1,000 deductible for her claim.
“We didn’t do anything wrong,” she said, questioning why she should pay the fee.
After two weeks of negotiations with the police and the council, Josephine’s insurer finally agreed to remove the car (pictured) and repair her fence earlier this week.
Honey Insurance told Josephine it would tow the car and repair her fence earlier this week.
The company said it could not agree to remove the car early because police had not given it permission.
It is understood the insurer has also decided to waive Josephine’s excess charges.
“We apologize for any confusion this issue may have caused to the customer,” Honey Insurance said.
