{"id":134458,"date":"2025-08-10T13:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134458\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T13:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:43:12","slug":"out-of-control-car-smashes-into-yard-where-children-had-played-moments-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134458\/","title":{"rendered":"Out-of-control car smashes into yard where children had played moments earlier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Young children have survived a frightening close call in Adelaide’s north-east as an out-of-control car left the road, drove through a park and smashed into a family’s backyard.<\/p>\n

Footage obtained exclusively by 9News shows the chaos unfolding on RM Williams drive in\u00a0Walkley Heights just before 11am today.<\/p>\n

It’s understood the driver may have been unconscious behind the wheel as the blue SUV was seen mounting a roundabout before disappearing through a park and towards houses.<\/p>\n

\"It'sIt’s understood the driver may have been unconscious behind the wheel as the blue SUV was seen mounting a roundabout before disappearing through a park and towards houses. (Nine)<\/p>\n

Father Hazen Kourbaj said he “still can’t believe it”.<\/p>\n

“It took me two minutes,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I was just standing there and looking and I couldn’t believe what I saw.”<\/p>\n

It was the same spot where his children had been playing with their puppy only minutes earlier.<\/p>\n

“I’m so thankful they weren’t there. They were there just a few minutes before,” he said.<\/p>\n

There was also a close call for children playing in the nearby park.<\/p>\n

They were seen running away as the car suddenly jumped the curb.<\/p>\n

A bus stop was also taken out by the runaway vehicle.<\/p>\n

“The driver was lucky to escape serious injury.\u00a0I ran out to check on him,” Kourbaj said.<\/p>\n

“He was trying to open the door, I was talking to him. But I couldn’t get him out of the car.”<\/p>\n

Police said the 70-year-old man didn’t have drugs or alcohol in his system.<\/p>\n

They’re investigating whether he may have suffered a medical episode behind the wheel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young children have survived a frightening close call in Adelaide’s north-east as an out-of-control car left the road,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-134458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115004768491485930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}