New footage has emerged of the moment a concrete house wall fell onto Kate Paterson's Pt Chevalier home, trapping her inside and rupturing her gas line.
Paterson uses a wheelchair and can only exit the house down the driveway. But the botched demolition of the neighbouring house on Wednesdaynight left her driveway strewn with concrete rubble and meant she could not leave the property.
Paterson's husband Aaron and sons Oscar, 11, and Ira, 8, were in their back garden filming as two excavators with claw grips worked to demolish the last section of the house next door on Moa Rd.
Their footage shows the claw of one of the excavators touching the final remaining wall, causing it to come crashing down across the Patersons' neighbouring wooden fence and driveway.
The decrepit house's chimney smashed through the wall of the Paterson's bungalow, leaving a gaping hole. The wall also nicked the gas line, sending gas hissing into the air, and took out the electricity.
