A GRANDFATHER was shocked when he returned home to find a car had smashed through the wall of his garage.

But he was left even more surprised when, four days later, the car remained wedged in the building.

Andy Bridle said he was “very frustrated” that nothing had been done to move the vehicle from outside his home in Hangleton Lane, Hove.

He said: “We came home about half-an-hour after it had happened.

“The car had rolled backwards from about 400 metres up the road, it must have hit the house at 30 or 40mph.”

The 64-year-old found the vehicle underneath a pile of rubble and bricks at his house in Hove on Friday morning.

He contacted police and the force, along with fire services, attended the scene.

Since then he says he has tried to contact the car owner’s insurance company, QuoteMeHappy which is owned by Aviva, repeatedly to try and sort the situation out but has “had no response”.

So no action has been taken and the car is still jammed in his garage.

But he said he had discussed the matter with the owner of the car who told him her insurance provider, had advised her to put plastic bags over her car’s windows so the insides would not get wet.

Andy said he did not want to move it as a “whole wall of the garage has collapsed” and removing the vehicle could send the whole structure tumbling down.

It also left a large crack in a wall of his house and Andy said he was concerned about the safety of the building.

He said: “It looks like a war zone, there is glass and bricks everywhere.

“I don’t see how, with health and safety these days, they can just leave a situation like this.”

“The most annoying thing at the moment is that area of the house is not structurally sound.

“I was worried it was going to collapse in the rain.

“We have been left in a precarious situation.

“We have things in the garage we need which we can’t get to.”

Andy also said the damage had not gone unnoticed by people walking in the street.

He said: “Everyone stops and looks, it’s dangerous.

“I had my grandchildren over at the weekend and didn’t want them to go anywhere near it.

“It’s just very frustrating that nothing has been done.”

A spokesman from QuoteMeHappy said: “We insure the car that rolled into the garage, not the building itself. It is critical that before we are able to remove our customer’s car from the garage and commence necessary building work, that the structure is made safe and sound. Our contractors will be on site shortly to begin this work.”

Yesterday afternoon Andy, speaking to The Argus, said that contractors had visited the house.

He said: “Someone came around today to put up security measures, large poles to hold the roof up. But still no one is going near the garage.”

But he said he had contacted his own insurance company earlier in the day and did not know who had sent the contractors.