A POLICE officer who watched a four-wheel-drive race towards her in the Warrnambool police station has told how her life her been turned up-side-down.
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When Glenn Shalders, 41, crashed into the police station entrance on the evening of June 30 this year, the policewoman was working behind the counter.
She watched as Shalders crashed his mother’s four-wheel-drive Pajero through the front entrance to the station, over fixed chairs and into the main counter which was shunted backwards and caused damage to an internal brick wall.
The policewoman, in a victim’s impact statement read to the Warrnambool Magistrates Court, said she was in total shock after the accident and when she went home she burst into tears.
The four-wheel-drive stopped about a metre from the woman and another police officer.
She said it was only when she went home she realised she could have been killed or injured and not seen her baby daughter grow up.
The woman said she had trouble sleeping in the nights that followed because every time she closed her eyes all she saw were the headlights of the four-wheel-drive coming straight for her.
She said since the incident she had continued to have trouble sleeping and that had effected her life in a number of ways which led to her being quiet and a recluse.
The police woman said it was wrong that Shalders had put her life at risk because he was angry with the world.
She said she was now scared while working that someone else would overreact in the same way Shalders had.
