With several schools taking part in an AFL Gala Day at the time, Birrong Football Club President Tyrone Wait had taken the day off to help set up facilities and saw the whole thing.
He said that out of the blue, he heard a loud crash and looked up in time to see a black vehicle being driven by an elderly woman, smash through the reserve fence and land about six feet from where a group of mothers were sitting, at 10.52am. Luckily, no one was injured.
“The car got airborne and crashed between two trees; it’s a miracle she didn’t hit one of them because the outcome for her would have been much worse,” he said.
“The mothers were shaking like leaves and crying, especially one of them and everyone was in total shock.”
Tyrone said he helped the woman out of the car but she didn’t seem “with it” and couldn’t remember what happened.
“I called the police, the council and the ambulance who said they had to take her to hospital to be checked especially as she had no memory of the crash,” he said.
“I hope she is ok and getting treatment.”
The council has removed the debris and will repair the fence as a priority.
“It really is incredibly lucky no one got hurt,” Tyrone said.
“If the incident had’ve happened during the first half of the game when most of the kids were down at the end near where the car came through, I hate to think of what could’ve happened.
“We’re all just so lucky as it could have been so much worse.”
Police spoke to the driver, a woman, 71, early the following morning at a Bass Hill home and she was issued an infringement notice for negligent driving.
