When an alleged drunk driver careened through the chain link fence outside of her house, Terry Mabe was shaken up. But when six months later she awoke to similar crash noises and walked outside to see her yard had again become a crash scene, she was in disbelief.
“I’m still kind of in shock,” she said. “You’d think we lived on a curve, but we don’t.”
Terry and her husband, Curtis Mabe, have lived in their one-story house at 9701 N.E. Burton Road, just east of Northeast 98th Avenue, for 24 years. Until this year, they’ve never had a problem with people damaging their property.
But in the span of less than six months, two allegedly impaired drivers have crashed into Mabe’s yard, causing thousands of dollars’ worth of damage.