Whitstable family left shaken after vehicle smashes into cars overnight

There's also some damage to the bricks and the front of their house.

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00:00A Whitstable family has been left in a state of shock and with a hefty bill, as this is

00:06the state of their family car.

00:08It all happened last night.

00:11They say their evening was disturbed when they heard an almighty bang.

00:15It's thought a car had crashed into theirs.

00:18Sarah-Jane says she phoned the police, but they wouldn't send anybody out.

00:23I was sitting watching TV last night, about half past nine, ten o'clock, heard a massive

00:29almighty bang, got shoes on, came outside, saw that my car was not sitting as I'd left

00:36it.

00:37Somebody had drove into it, hence then it hit my husband's trailer, which then concertinaed

00:43into my husband's van.

00:44My vehicle also went into the front of our house and the driver reversed out and drove

00:50straight off up the hill.

00:53Absolutely devastated, you know, the fact that he's just come in, caused all this damage

00:59and we're left to just pick up all the pieces, two vehicles, house.

01:03Now the car is usually parked directly straight in front of the house, but they say as a result

01:08of the incident, that's what's caused it to fling around, facing diagonal, and that's

01:13what caused it to fling into the trailer and the van, causing damage to both of those as

01:18well.

01:19A neighbour says he's managed to capture some of the incident on his Ring doorbell camera.

01:23You can see that's my house right there, sort of in the forefront, and the car would have

01:29come from the other side there.

01:33Around 9.42 was when I caught it on the video, on my door video, and it went out of sight,

01:39but then I heard a big bang, so it had to be my car, because there was no other cars

01:44that came through.

01:45And it was here for about 30 seconds, it had the impact, we heard the big noise and

01:51there was some rustling, so it must have tried to back up or manoeuvre around, maybe that's

01:55why the car has gotten turned around, and then it just drove off.

01:59For her son Ethan, when he heard the noise, he was concerned something more serious had

02:04happened.

02:05I was just sitting there at my desk, enjoying a tea as you do on a Sunday evening, and then

02:11just this almighty bang, and it's like a sound I've never heard before.

02:14I thought the ceiling was caving in, or I thought, because my dad had literally just

02:18gone to bed, I thought maybe he took a tumble down the stairs and I was really, really panicked.

02:23It was such a shock, none of us knew what was going on.

02:26The family now are appealing for anyone with information to get in touch, and are asking

02:30neighbours for footage from their CCTV or ring doorbells.

02:34Kent Police has been contacted for comment.

02:37Sophia Akin for KMTV in Whitstable.