By BRIDGET SCOTT
A NAR Nar Goon family of three was thrilled to move from a caravan back into their home, six months after it was destroyed.
Peter and Selina Scott, with their daughter Sally, were forced to live in a caravan on their Seven Mile Road property after a car plowed into their home, earlier this year.
The family of three came within inches of death on Sunday 2 February, when a man driving along Bald Hill Road failed to stop and went through their front fence, and straight into the couple’s bedroom.
Mr Scott and his wife awoke to a car right next to their bed, and Mr Scott said his first thought was that the bedhead had fallen off.
Only a day after the incident occurred, he told of how the car came so close that he rested his hand on its bonnet to help himself out of bed.
The accident completely destroyed a majority of the couple’s house, but thankfully nobody was seriously hurt.
The family was forced to live in a caravan on their property while works were undertaken on the house.
Six months on and after what seemed like longer to the trio, they are thrilled to be back in the comfort of their own home.
Mrs Scott said it was back to exactly what it had been.
“It was cold and damp and just as winter was about to hit,” she said.
Mrs Scott said while it was an adventure for their four-year-old daughter at first, she quickly got over it.
Following the move back in, the couple has thanked local business owners for helping them along the way.
“We are really grateful for the Pakenham and Nar Nar Goon community,” they said.
She said the O’Brien’s Milkbar and Nar Nar Goon Hotel were a great support, as well as a few organisations from Pakenham.
This was not the first ordeal of the kind for the family, with a similar incident of occurring two years previously.
The accident in February caused damage valued at more than $100,000 and a 70-year-old Woori Yallock man spoke to police following the incident.
Mrs Scott said the family had quickly settled back in, and she hoped the council would upgrade the ripple strips towards the end of Bald Hill Road.
“We are not allowed to put a barrier out there,” she said.
“We want the ripple strips done properly again, they have worn down.”
