This family could be the unluckiest in Britain after their two homes were destroyed by freak accidents - in just THREE MONTHS. A car ploughed into the Hillyer family's first home, then a gas explosion ripped through their temporary accommodation, leaving them homeless once again. Their seven-month-old twins lost all their toys in the explosion that devastated their rented home, while the parents were forced to throw out nearly all of their possessions. But despite the series of disasters, which also saw baby Austin in hospital for two weeks, mum Donna thinks they are among Britain's LUCKIEST. Donna, 33, said: "We have escaped two major accidents. We were not in the house on either occasion and nobody was hurt, so maybe we have the best luck. "We don't see ourselves as a tragic case. We are all still together and none of us got hurt - that is what matters."
First, they were forced to flee the family home in Walthamstow, east London, she and husband Tim bought for £375,000 in 2012 when a car crashed into their living room on November 6. Publisher Donna and scientist Tim, 33, had taken Austin and Annabelle to the shops leaving at home her father Pat Condon, 61, who was visiting from County Waterford. She said: "The four of us had gone out leaving my father there and we had been in Mothercare for two minutes when my dad rung. "Really calmly, he's a really calm Irish guy, he said 'I think you need to come back because a car has gone into your house'. "I was laughing thinking 'good one dad' but he said 'no this is serious'. "Because he's such an understated guy I realised then it must be absolute devastation if he's being serious." They were met at their home by around 30 firemen and were told they couldn't enter it because the car caused structural damage. Donna said a "conservative" estimate of the damage to their Victorian terrace home is £60,000 and how the accident happened is still a mystery. She said: "The children were only four-and-a-half-months old at that point which made the situation much more of a crisis. "Dad said he heard a really loud crack and turned his head and saw the car coming through the curtains of the front room. It happened so quick he didn't even digest it he just got out through the front door. "He was in the house and wasn't hurt, and the chances of all four of us being in the house is so likely it was amazing it wasn't a very different story."
CARBONDALE, Colo. (AP) — Police in western Colorado are investigating a possible slaying after a man injured in a crash told emergency workers that he had just killed his wife. The crash happened Monday just outside Carbondale. The Glenwood Springs Post Independent (http://bit.ly/1EKc7DV ) reports that the unidentified man rear-ended an empty cattle truck and was being airlifted to the hospital when he allegedly told the medical helicopter crew that he had killed his wife in an apartment building.
