A PENSIONER has described the moment a neighbour crashed into the living room of her home while double the drink-drive limit.
Jessie Kemp, 74, and husband George, 77, were about to have dinner on Bonfire Night when neighbour Margaret McKenzie ploughed her husband’s car into their bay window.
McKenzie got behind the wheel of the four-door saloon as it sat parked in the driveway of her home in Renfrew’s Sandy Road on Wednesday, November 5 last year.
The 61-year-old slammed the silver convertible into reverse and raced across the two-lane road backwards at around 6pm that day.
She sped across the road, which is often busy with children going to and do an emergency stop.
She knocked down part of the Kemp’s wall before smashing into the bay window of their £150,000 bungalow.
Jessie Kemp, a retired seamstress, who is deaf, said: “George was watching TV, he was watching The Chase. I went through to say that his dinner was nearly ready, we were having fish pie, and that was it.
“It was Bonfire Night so I thought the noise was kids throwing fireworks at the window.
“Then the glass came in and I ran for the door, but I couldn’t get the door open because the building had shifted.
“The emergency services were there in a flash and they were brilliant. It could have been much worse.”
At Paisley Sheriff Court last month, McKenzie pleaded guilty to driving while drunk and driving without due care and attention.
She admitted having drunk so much that she had 76 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath – the limit at the time was 35 microgrammes.
McKenzie will learn her fate when she returns to court next month.
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