OAP spends £12,500 on driveway barricade after 13 crashes
Jack Evans
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Owen Allan outside his home in Braintree Essex. See masons copy: MNBARRIER: A fed-up OAP says he has been forced to spend £12,500 putting up a metal and concrete barrier - to stop cars crashing into his bungalow.Owen Allan, 77, claims 13 cars have come off a sharp road bend and through the driveway and into the front garden of his £400,000 home in just two years.The OAP became so worried that one day both he and his wife would be killed that he has barricaded his driveway with breeze blocks, a metal gate and a set of concrete posts.
Photo credit: SWNS A pensioner from Essex has spent an incredible £12,500 on barricades for his driveway, after his house was hit 13 times by cars losing control.
Owen Allen, from Braintree, Essex, spent the sum on concrete and metal barriers to prevent further damage from occurring to his home.
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