Children 'traumatised' and 'scared to go home' after car driver crashes into house
A mum says her children have been too scared to stay at home after a car driver lost control and smashed into their house.
Shocking video footage given to the Express & Star shows the moment the dark-coloured Vauxhall swerved across the road and smashed into the house, causing extensive damage and leaving two children lucky to escape without injury.
Natalie Skelding says the incident on July 25 on Hayes Lane, Lye, has traumatised her sons Jenson, aged six, and Finlay, aged five, with the pair spending time with their grandmother, Wendy, who lives in the same street.
They are finally starting to move back but the house needs extensive repairs, and Jenson is afraid to sleep in his own room.
Wendy has called for speed-calming measures on the road which is often used as a cut through between Lye, Cradley Heath and Halesowen and contains a nursery school and a day centre close to where the car crashed.
