Kim Cattrall was shaken and stirred to action after a teenager crashed into her oceanfront home in the Comox Valley.
“A senseless 16 yr old driver plowed into home Joy Riding @ 1 a.m. People cld have been killd. U should b ashamed,” the actress, best known for playing Samantha Jones on Sex and the City, said on Twitter.
After taking to Twitter to vent her frustration following Tuesday’s crash, Cattrall uploaded images of a white SUV, believed to be a Suzuki Vitara, with a crumpled front end, and snapshots of the heavily damaged front of her house.
Another Twitter message that Cattrall, 59, posted later was accompanied by a close-up of the severely damaged vehicle. It read: “@MADDOnline @ 1am Tuesday a 16 yr old driver smashed into my home. How can we prevent these violating assaults?”
The campaign group Mothers Against Drunk Driving replied via Twitter: “So sorry to hear this. #DrunkDriving is an epidemic we must end.”
Comox Valley RCMP have not confirmed whether the driver was impaired when the crash occurred. “We don’t comment on investigations that are active,” an RCMP spokesman said.
The Liverpool-born, Comox-raised actress’s Twitter messages prompted worldwide media attention. There were reports in London’s Daily Mail and The Independent, on TMZ and Fox News, and in Us magazine and the New York Daily News.
Graham Norton, the British comedian and chat show host tweeted: “WTF? That’s nuts. So glad you are OK. G xx”
Cattrall said via Twitter that while no one was hurt, the incident shook up her whole neighbourhood. “Shaken up but okay,” she said. “This young girl could have killed herself, her friends, and me. Frightening.”
Cattrall told The Guardian newspaper last year that as part of her desire to reconnect with her roots, she had bought the house on Vancouver Island.
“It’s magical. There are sea lions that go back and forth in front of the house all day long,” she said. The actress has lived in New York, London and Toronto, where she filmed two seasons of Sensitive Skin, the HBO Canada comedy series adapted from the creator Hugo Blick’s British series of the same name.
On the advice of her doctors, Cattrall pulled out of a London production of Linda for health reasons in December.
She was to have played the show’s title character, an ambitious businesswoman.
Cattrall wrote that while she had no further comment for now on Tuesday’s incident, she said “I will continue to educate teens re: this reckless behaviour.”
