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Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from news Talk zed Be

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Speaker 2: So, as you may have seen in the Herald of Rolliston,

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Speaker 2: couple feel lucky to be alive after a traumatic accidents

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Speaker 2: or a car catapult through their Canterbury home in the

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Speaker 2: early hours of the morning. Luanne Venor Frieda's wife, Sueanne

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Speaker 2: Venor from underneath the vehicle, crediting a curtain for protecting

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Speaker 2: them from the shrapnel. Llew Allen and Sue and join

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Speaker 2: us on the phone now afternoon, guys, how are you?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Hi, not so bad?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 5: What an incredible story and quite different experiences for both

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Speaker 5: of you, So let's get both angles. Lew Allen, can

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Speaker 5: you tell us the story from the start from your perspective.

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Speaker 5: You've gotten up to go to the bathroom. I understand.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So got up, went to the ballroom. I saw

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Speaker 4: it was about offs three on the clock. And when

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Speaker 4: I was done there, I got back into bed and

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Speaker 4: I just just got, you know, comfortable, and then I

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Speaker 4: heard this wire screeching and then just this roll of thunder.

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Speaker 4: It was immense sound, and it just grew louder and louder,

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Speaker 4: then a massive bang, and yeah, then just everything was

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Speaker 4: on top of us. It was bricks and windows and everything.

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Speaker 4: And so then I started screaming and just digging myself out.

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Speaker 4: So then when I got up finally out, it's just

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Speaker 4: lasted everywhere and it's dark. And I started screaming for

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Speaker 4: my wife, and she doesn't answer the first two times

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Speaker 4: that I call her, and I just see her leg

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Speaker 4: sticking out under this car that's in our bedroom, and

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Speaker 4: I don't know what happened there. It all just got

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Speaker 4: really fuzzy, and but somehow managed to push the call

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Speaker 4: loft the car out of the way. Well just and grew.

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Speaker 4: I have my wife and just pull it out, you know.

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Speaker 4: After she anstored me the third time, and I could

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Speaker 4: actually pinpoint where she was, and it was the scariest

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Speaker 4: thing I've ever experienced in my life.

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Speaker 5: Be now, so Anne, let's hear it from your perspective.

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Speaker 5: You were asleep and then you woke up. I mean,

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Speaker 5: what was going through your mind? It would have been

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Speaker 5: hard to work out what had happened.

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Speaker 3: I didn't even hear anything. I just heard screaming. The

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Speaker 3: way he was screaming, I've never heard him scream up

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Speaker 3: back before and pulling everything on top of you, and

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Speaker 3: there was curtain on me, and I didn't know what

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Speaker 3: was going on because you couldn't see anything. And I

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Speaker 3: just kept on telling him it's pushing on my stomach,

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Speaker 3: it's pushing, and he just said, can you get out?

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Speaker 3: And I said no, I can't, and just suddenly I

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Speaker 3: just feel the weights coming off my stomach and him

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Speaker 3: pulling me aside and we just read and I didn't

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Speaker 3: even feel any pain yet or it was crazy. I

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Speaker 3: really thought I was going to dry.

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Speaker 5: Oh that's that is, I mean, understandable. And at what

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Speaker 5: point did you actually realize it was a car because

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Speaker 5: it sounds like it was just pandemonium at this stage.

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Speaker 3: I ran outside and then I really can't even remember,

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Speaker 3: but I think I came back in and I went

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Speaker 3: driver was okay. They got him out. So it was

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Speaker 3: just very confusing. I can't really remember everything from trying

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Speaker 3: to well.

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Speaker 5: We appreciate it. We're talking to Lluellen and Sue Anne,

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Speaker 5: who had a car fly through their bedroom wall in Roliston.

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Speaker 5: So you have got out and an amazing act of

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Speaker 5: heroism from you. Luill Allen. You found some kind of

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Speaker 5: superhuman strength to lift the car.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. To be honest, I don't know how I did it.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what happened. All I know is I

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Speaker 4: on the other hand, and within a matter of seconds we.

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Speaker 3: Were out of the room. Unreal.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how. It just felt easy at that point,

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Speaker 4: but looking back at it, I when I look at

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Speaker 4: how the hell did I just how did I do it?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you mentioned that the curtain may have slowed

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Speaker 5: Is that right?

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Speaker 2: You think the curtain lucky? It was there to try

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Speaker 4: I think maybe the curtain was more of blocking the

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Speaker 4: shrapnel of all the black bricks and the glass that

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Speaker 4: So the curtain saved us from all the small things,

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Speaker 4: got much much more damage. If it wasn't for the curtain,

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Speaker 4: it would have cut us up definitely.

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Speaker 5: So now you're in a situation where you know, there's

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Speaker 5: the smoke's settling a little bit, and you have someone

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so when we got the kids, because after my wife,

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Speaker 4: luckily there there was no there wasn't even a scratch

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Speaker 4: in their rooms. They were perfectly safe. So we grabbed them.

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Speaker 4: We get them outside and we bosting. We think of

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Speaker 4: some people with no clothes or no tea shirts, no socks,

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Speaker 4: And then when I see again, when I got around

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Speaker 4: I just walk up to him and I'm like, are

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Speaker 4: all I wanted to know, because you never know if

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Speaker 4: there was a child in the car or you know,

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Speaker 4: his wife or so. We were just so scared that

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Speaker 4: there was someone else in the car with him. And

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Speaker 4: the worst thing is that the first thing he told

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Speaker 3: And.

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Speaker 4: You know, it was it was a tough morning, but

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Speaker 4: you know, we're all human, you know.

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Speaker 5: Yes, So do you know how he managed to lose

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Speaker 5: control and go flying through your bedroom?

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Speaker 2: More?

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Speaker 4: We're not We're not too sure, but he was speeding.

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Speaker 3: I think I heard him mention something about a cat

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Speaker 3: to the police. I don't know it was. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe for a cat. But we know from what

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Speaker 4: the police have told us. He's the first courts appearance.

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Speaker 4: They charging him with drinking and driving, so that might

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Speaker 4: we don't really know the full story on his end.

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Speaker 4: We haven't had a chance to speak to him.

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Speaker 5: Wow. So as you look back on it, I mean,

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Speaker 5: how are you feeling about it now? Because we're talking

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Speaker 5: millimeters away from a tragedy pretty much, aren't we.

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I was, I was angry. I'm not going to lie.

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Speaker 4: When I first got to terms and was taken to

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Speaker 4: you know when I realized, look, everyone's safe and everyone

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Speaker 4: is you know that I've still got my family, you know,

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Speaker 4: I kind of gave him. Yeah, what happened?

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Speaker 5: Well, mate, you would have to be an absolute saint

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Speaker 5: to not have experienced some anger after you you know,

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Speaker 5: you found a car on top of your wife because

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Speaker 5: someone's gone flying through through the window. But also incredible

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Speaker 5: that that quickly, you know, just overnight, you as a

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Speaker 5: person can move on and you know, find forgiveness that quickly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, it's Look, it was a life changing experience.

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Speaker 4: You know, I don't think calding a grudge would have

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Speaker 4: changed anything. Definitely.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell me one thing that's good that you

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Speaker 5: now can tick off the things that can potentially happen

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Speaker 5: to you the list, because no one is in a

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Speaker 5: situation where two cars fly through the window of their bedroom.

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Speaker 5: So you know you're say from that one now that

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Speaker 5: the odds are too small for that too.

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Speaker 2: Happened again, Yeah, the statistically off favor No, yes, and

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Speaker 2: You mentioned the community of Rolliston in your neighbors, and

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Speaker 2: that's a beautiful thing about Roliston. You've managed to move

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Speaker 2: into a new place, is that right?

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Speaker 4: Yes, with the help of the whole community and Bailey's

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Speaker 4: Canterbury Property and A one properties, they collaborated and we

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Speaker 4: found a house that standing open and clear and ready

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Speaker 4: to move in and it's and then we had a

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Speaker 4: couple of friends and and a lot of random people

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Speaker 4: so smooth and so quick. It's amazing. It's really we

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Speaker 4: have never experienced this type of family situation. It is

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Speaker 4: definitely like family. It's not just the community.

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Speaker 5: That's that's fantastic. And the kids all right, obviously they

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Speaker 3: Oh, they're doing they're doing okay. On Saturday they were

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Speaker 3: They were not having a good day, but going to

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Speaker 5: That's that's so great to hear and look so pleased

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Speaker 5: that neither of you guys experienced a major injuries and

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Speaker 5: and good on you guys for how you're dealing with

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Speaker 5: the situation that it's quite quite hard to get my

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Speaker 5: head around what you've experienced. But thank you so much

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, all the best guys. That is

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Speaker 2: Lou Allen and Suanne vena incredible story. You're listening to

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