Shock as car smashes through wall of Craigentinny home

Martin and Muriel Aird got the shock of their lives when a red Audi car crashed into their garden

AN elderly couple have called for further road safety measures to be installed outside their home after a third car ploughed through their garden wall since they bought the house.

Muriel Aird, 80, and husband Martin, 82, told how they woke in the early hours of the morning to find a red Audi had smashed through the stone barricade of their Craigentinny home - stopping just metres from their living room.

However, retired lecturer Muriel revealed it was the third time the couple had experienced a lucky escape since moving in more than 35 years ago. She now wants road chiefs to do more to protect the property, with just a single bollard separating cars from the pavement outside the house, but claimed council bosses told her “someone would have to die first,” after the second incident in 1984.

But Muriel admits she fears the incident repeating itself again if no extra safety plans are put in place.

And while no one was hurt in last night’s crash, Muriel said the couple were taking “a risk” by continuing to live in the house, with Martin suffering from spinal paralysis.

She said: “It’s like a speedway track out there most days, even with the 20 mile per hour limit, nobody is driving at that speed, they all go haring past.”

“There was just this almighty crash and then all these blue flashing lights, the police were there very quickly, but the wall outside has just been totally destroyed.