Friday March 3rd, 1989, 5:30 PM, we arrived at Zeally Bay Caravan Park in Torquay, booked a campsite spot and were told to select one on the back fence.
The best spot seemed to be in the middle spot, but this was already occupied by a young girl of about 16 with a small one-man hiking tent (she stayed one night and left early the next morning). So, we picked a good spot 2 spaces to the left. If that girl had not camped there that Friday night, we would have been killed. What happened is written in a statement I made at the local Police Station later that week.
These diagrams show the course of the speeding car as it hit the kerb at about 80kph, became airborne, hit and went through the fence onto the campsite we had intended to camp at the previous Friday night.
The front of the car was damaged beyond repair and underneath the car was a solid fence pole as well as a fair few of the fence palings it had smashed to ‘smithereens’ on its way to the present position.
We have been back to that caravan park a few times since, but we’ve never camped on that spot or any of the ones near it.