A DRIVER left a trail of destruction after crashing into seven cars and a garden wall.
Columbia Road, Grimsby, resident Martin Daly, says he had to leap over his own garden wall to escape the out-of-control Citroen Picasso.
It collided with a Fiat Punto parked in front of Mr Daly's Kia Ce'ed, which he was about to unlock when the crash happened.
The Bluestar Fibres site protection officer was heading to work at 6am yesterday when he saw the Picasso crash into the parked Punto, which lifted into the air on impact and came close to crushing Mr Daly.
His car was one of seven cars and a garden wall damaged in the trail of destruction in Weelsby Street and Columbia Road, Grimsby.
The 24-year-old driver fled the scene with his pregnant passenger, but was apprehended by a resident in Columbia Road after a struggle.
Mr Daly said: "I was standing at my car when it hit the car in front. I could hear it coming towards me because it had crashed into the wall just before.
"The crash bounced the car up as I was standing on the pavement, so I jumped the garden wall."
The resident joked: "Linford Christie has nothing on me. It could have been a lot worse."
Neighbour Mike Czuczman, 59, was heading to work at Phillips 66 when he saw the Picasso driver flee the scene.
His partner Leigh Southern was putting newspapers in her recycling bin and saw the driver run past their home.
She said: "Mike is a big lad and just jumped on him and got him on the floor. I called the police."
Mr Czuczman was assisted in apprehending the runaway driver by Weelsby Street resident Trevor Emmerson, 50.
He chased after the car when it reversed into his garden wall, causing extensive damage.
His wife Larraine, 41, said: "We are still in shock. When it hit the wall it sounded just like the earthquake we had a few years ago. We heard screeching tyres. When we got outside the wall was completely knocked down. Then the car shot off down Columbia Road."
Weelsby Street neighbour Julie Ballans, 52, said she saw the Picasso being driven towards Hardy's Recreation Ground.
She said: "I don't think the driver knew there are bollards preventing anyone getting onto the field. He reversed out of control, hit my husband's car and then went straight back into Larraine's wall."
She said her husband, Patrick, had to take time off from his building business to sort out his car. A neighbour's Mitsubishi Galant was also damaged.
Care worker Dawn Concarr 40, of Columbia Road, said her Fiat Punto was written off in the collision.
She said: "I have had to take the day off to sort all this out and I can't do any travelling. It has come at a bad time with Christmas coming up."
A Humberside Police spokeswoman said: "The driver of the vehicle, a 24-year -old-man, was arrested and taken into police custody.
"A female passenger from the Citroen was taken to hospital by paramedics as a precaution."
