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“I really thought I was gonna die": Rolleston couple recounts escape from wayward car

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Thu, 20 Mar 2025, 3:31pm

“I really thought I was gonna die": Rolleston couple recounts escape from wayward car

Author
九一星空无限talk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 20 Mar 2025, 3:31pm

A Canterbury couple believe it's a pure miracle they walked away without serious injury after a car smashed into their bedroom as they slept. 

Emergency services were called to Rolleston's Shillingford Boulevard around 3:40 early Saturday morning. 

The vehicle trapped Llewellyn Venter under a doorframe and pinned his wife Sue-ann under the wheel.   

He says the curtain saved their lives by shielding them from the debris. 

The pair sustained just cuts and bruises, while the driver was moderately injured. 

Llewellyn told Matt Heath and Tyler Adams there was an immense sound like a roll of thunder and a massive bang, before everything was just on top of them. 

鈥淚t was bricks and windows and everything, and, so then I started screaming and just digging myself out.鈥  

Sue-ann didn鈥檛 answer the first two times he called for her, but he spotted her legs sticking out from under the car that crashed into their bedroom. 

鈥淪omehow I managed to push the car, or lift the car, out of the way, well, just, and grab my wife and just pull her out.鈥 

鈥淚t was the scariest thing I鈥檝e ever experienced in my life.鈥  

Suu-ann told Matt and Tyler that she鈥檇 never heard her husband scream like that before. 

鈥淚 didn鈥檛 know what was going on, because you couldn鈥檛 see anything.鈥 

鈥淚 really thought I was gonna die.鈥 

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