Plea to careless drivers after OAP's wall knocked down again
The owner of what is probably the most accident-prone garden wall in Mid Wales has made a plea to drivers: "Please stop demolishing my property."
The brick wall which skirts around pensioner Awen Jones's garden in Newtown has been knocked down six times in the past five years.
Motorists use the road outside Mrs Jones's house on the Wynfields estate as a convenient turning spot.
But not every driver takes enough care and the 74-year-old widow says she is fed up with paying for a new wall every time a motorist misjudges reversing around the corner.
The most recent crash happened on last Wednesday and Mrs Jones said the damage in that incident was the worst yet.
She said she had reported the incident to police and was hoping the public would help identify the driver responsible.
The driver left without leaving any details after the crash which happened between 3pm and 4pm.
Mrs Jones said: "I presume the damage was caused by someone reversing around the corner of Wynfields estate.
"The damage is considerable and I am a widowed pensioner living on my own and I am not in a position to keep funding the repair of this wall as this is the sixth occasion that somebody has reversed into her wall.
"Unfortunately, this occasion has caused the worst damage yet.
"I have reported the matter to the police and want to raise awareness and try and find out who did this, as I believe that being such a busy time of day, somebody must have seen something."
Mrs Jones' son Ian, a professional driving instructor, said motorists needed to take greater care when they reversed in front of his mother's property.
He said: "There is no reason whatsoever why drivers should be striking the wall.
"The road is wide enough to reverse but drivers are not taking enough care.
"She lives right on the corner. What drivers do is drive in front of her house and then reverse as they try to turn.
"They keep hitting the wall.
"She is a pensioner and it is £500 every time to repair the wall. She just can't keep paying it.
"We have raised it with the council and the police and asked about bollards but at the end of the day people just need to be more careful."
