Cora and Hans Klip from Veen look back with relief on the crash in their home on Saturday evening. Around eight o’clock suddenly a police car was half parked in their house. They heard sirens, the scrape of the car on the gravel driveway, and then a loud bang. “The nasty thing was the silence after that. That was really lurid.”
Cora was sitting quietly in her garden with a cup of coffee on Saturday evening when she hears a siren. “It’s getting really close,” she thought. It got louder and louder, until she heard a huge bang. “I was very shocked by that”, but with the fright in her legs she went to have a look.
What she saw was a police car parked sideways in the house. “It was suddenly deafeningly quiet,” says Hans. He sat upstairs in the house and sprinted downstairs.
He is especially surprised that it is a police car. “You expect everything, but not the police.”
“Oh God”, Cora thinks when she sees the motionless service car in the wall. “But luckily the doors opened and the officers came out.” Cora and Hans feel a rush of relief. “Just like the relief that I was not in the room at the time. I often sit there,” the Veense continues. The house has been badly damaged.
“I assume the police are well insured, so that will be fine.”
The couple lives on a sharp bend on the Maasdijk, which trucks sometimes have trouble with. “And people often drive too fast,” says Cora.
Apart from the damage to the house, everyone was unharmed. The officers were quite frightened. “A bit stunned. They immediately apologized.” It was a scooter chase. “And then, apparently, they didn’t make it to the corner.”
Actually, Cora and Hans are most disappointed that they had just finished renovating their house. Hans has devoted three years of his retirement to this. “We wanted to enjoy ourselves, but now we can start again,” says Cora, disappointed. “The sour feeling is a bit overpowering.”
Her husband sees things a little rosier. “I assume the police are well insured, so that will be fine,” he chuckles.
