Forty days after a car hit their house in Puente Genil: “We live in fear that our house will fall down”

Manuel Luque, 70, and his wife, Mercedes Expósito, 68, are currently desperately asking for one thing: “That they repair our house.” And on August 10, a vehicle crashed into the facade of their house in Puente Genil, in a spectacular accident that nearly cost them their lives. Related news Puente Genil Standard No A mother enrolls with her daughter in the Baccalaureate in Arts: “It will be quite an adventure” ROCÍO DÍAZ Sandra Sánchez, a businesswoman from Malaga but based in Puente Genil, aims to finish her studies after having to drop them out of high school “It was 8:00 a.m. and we were getting ready to have breakfast,” recalls a very upset Manuel, who points out to this medium that “we were about to die, because if we had met in the dining room, the vehicle would have taken us to the front.” “, assures the resident of the municipality of Ponta. “We were about to die: if we had been in the dining room, the vehicle would have taken us in front of us. The impact was so brutal that the accident completely affected a good part of the facade of their house,” destroying mainly the dining room and also part of the kitchen. Forty days after what happened, this couple lives in fear that their house will collapse at any moment, because so far no one has offered them a solution. “It turns out that the insurance company of my house is the same as the one of the car that crashed and they still have not offered me an urgent solution to my situation,” says Manuel, who, with a 70 percent disability, explains that “the insurance company’s response is that my application is in progress” and that “what they have asked me so far is to take care of removing the debris myself.” Unaffordable expenses “I can’t afford these expenses,” confesses this neighbor who suffers from anxiety and sleeps intermittently, afraid, at the same time, that someone will break into their home. This couple, who live their days as best they can, cooking on the terrace and praying that it doesn’t rain “because our house could flood,” emphasizes that “the mayor visited us and promised to speed up any procedure, in addition to helping us place a board in the hole that my house has today. “State in which the interior of Rocío Díaz’s house was left. This is not the first time that this couple’s house has suffered damage, since it has not been long ago. , and the same vehicle with another owner also hit a curve, at the back of their house. “The problem is that in this area of ​​Agustín Espuny (La Pitilla neighbourhood) cars drive at high speed, they even turn and there is a lot of traffic, because the road in front of my house serves as a passage to an industrial area,” explains Manuel. “I know that the City Council will now take road safety measures and reinforce the road with guardrails or retaining walls so that this does not happen again.” For now, this couple is still waiting for a solution, stressing that “we don’t want money, we just want our house to be repaired.”

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