A GREAT-GRANDMOTHER is begging for bollards after a car ploughed into her garden for the fourth time.

Mavis Wallis is pleading with Darlington Borough Council to install bollards around her property on Wensleydale Road after having her wall knocked down repeatedly in recent years.

Cars have ploughed into her garden four times in six years, leaving the elderly lady fearing for her safety and that of others.

The most recent incident took place on just after midnight on Tuesday, March 24 and saw two cars – believed to have been racing – collide near to the junction of Wensleydale Road and North Road, one smashing into Mrs Wallis’ wall and coming to rest in her garden, just inches from her house.

The 84-year-old has contacted the council several times over the years in a bid to prevent any further incidents by having bollards installed.

A spokesperson for Darlington Borough Council said: “We are aware of and are making further enquiries into the incident that happened last week in Wensleydale Road.”

Mrs Wallis said she had been left shaken and upset by the most recent incident and believes it is a matter of time before someone is seriously injured or killed at the dangerous junction.

She added: “I was in bed and heard a thud, I can’t get over it happening again, it can’t go on like this.

“I’ve been so upset I haven’t been able to eat and feel sick all the time – it’s stressful and worrying.

“I can’t believe this has happened again, even my neighbours are saying how unlucky I am.

“I want something sorting to make it safer as it will happen again, it’s too much for me, I’m not in good health.”

She added: “I keep having to build my wall again, I’ve just had it done and there are excesses to pay on insurance.

“I’m very house-proud and keep thinking about the mess – it took the council until Friday to clean up and a dog cut its paw on the glass.

“It wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t so old but this is too much work for me.

“People should consider others more and think about the damage they’re doing.”

Mrs Wallis’ granddaughter, Sarah, said: “Something needs doing, she was lucky she wasn’t in the garden at the time, she could have been killed.”