Driver lucky not to be impaled

FIREFIGHTERS said a man was lucky not to be impaled when his car hit a wooden fence in Keysborough last week.
A driver lost control of the car just after midnight on Saturday 29 March. The car ran through a brick fence, then a wooden fence of a Wahroonga Avenue property in Keysborough before striking the front of a neighbouring house and coming to rest.
Dandenong Country Fire Authority volunteer and photographer Keith Pakenham said the male driver was lucky to escape being impaled by a wooden fence that had penetrated the bonnet of the car.
Mr Pakenham said firefighters from Dandenong, Springvale and Noble Park attended as well as police and paramedics.
The State Emergency Service placed a tarp over a section of the damaged house.