A grandmother of three woke up to a loud bang Saturday morning, sometime after 8 a.m.
“I look out the window of my bedroom and I see a car upside down in my backyard,” says Tina Biasutti, who lives in the Dixon Road and Kipling Avenue area, in the city’s northwest end.
It was the fifth or possibly sixth time a vehicle left the road and entered the backyard since she moved into the house in 1977, she says. Saturday’s incident was the second in just a few months.
Biasutti says the man whose vehicle rolled over on Saturday appeared to have only minor injuries, but she is worried that one of her grandchildren could be hurt if another vehicle enters the yard. She takes care of them two or three times a week. In the summer, she puts a little plastic swimming pool right where the SUV ended up.
The yard faces onto Dixon Road where a Highway 401 exit lane ends and cars merge. There is a guardrail along the exit ramp, but it does not extend far enough down the road to protect Biasutti’s yard.
Biasutti plans to contact the city to ask whether they can take measures to make the yard safer – perhaps by adding another guardrail.
