They are angry, Arjan Veendijk and Carola Pieters from Tynaarlo. At around four o’clock on Saturday morning, they were rudely awakened when a car crashed into their house; the result is a big hole in the house. It turned out that the driver had been drinking and had already been arrested. Arjan and Carolien don’t understand this at all.
The driver, a 40-year-old man from Haren, was arrested early in the night on the N386 between Peize and Vries. According to police spokesman Thijs Damstra, the man refused any form of cooperation and as a result his driving license was confiscated.
The man then took a taxi to the carpool site where a recovery company had parked his car. “There he got behind the wheel again and then drove into a house in Tynaarlo. He was subsequently re-arrested and is now being detained,” the police spokesman said. The car caught fire on impact with the house.
The damage to the house is so great that residents cannot go home for the time being, the Van Vries firefighters report on Facebook.
According to resident Arjan Veendijk, he and his wife Carola were shocked when they were rudely awakened by the collision at around 4am. “We slept well,” says Arjan. “Actually, we didn’t understand it at all at first.”
Arjan and Carola are especially upset that the driver managed to get back behind the wheel. “They’ve already had that man and then he can start driving again, I can’t do that,” says Arjan. Today he will sit down with the insurer to see what needs to be done to repair the damage. And indeed he also wants more clarity from the police.