THEY were promised this development wouldn't affect them, but Ferngrove Lane residents are living in fear.

Neighbours David Screen and Davida Presley said the plans to develop melaleuca swamp land at Andergrove has put immense stress on their lives.

The project includes building a retaining wall, which is up to 3.4 metres high in some parts, to be built on the edge of their properties.

The Daily Mercury reported on Mr Screen's concerns when the development was first approved in October 2013.

Last week, a builder came to his home and asked him to sign a form allowing workers access to his property.

"They need to pull my fence down to build the retaining wall," he said.

Mackay Regional Council has a drain running on the side of his property on an easement that clears floodwater from Andergrove Rd.

He is concerned when a flood does happen, the retaining wall will dam all the water into his home as the drain and wetlands overflow.

"In the 2008 floodwater was up to the outside of my shed," he said. Ms Presley is not concerned her property will flood, but said the development had caused stress.

"It's not supposed to impact our lives, but it's impacting on our lives something fierce," she said.

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Jordan Ives, the nephew of Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s crew chief Greg Ives, survived a fiery Super Late Model wreck at New Smyrna Speedway on Saturday.

The incident occurred during practice when Ives, 16, spun in the corner and made contact with the outside retaining wall with the rear of his car. Almost immediately, fire spread into his car as he scrambled to get out.

Luckily, Ives was able to clear himself from the wreckage as the fire began to spread throughout the car and down the track. Safety crews were eventually able to extinguish the flames, but Ives' car was a total loss.

Fellow racer Brandon Oakley had a front row seat for the incident.

"He just broke loose in front of me and slid up and hit the wall and there was a huge ball of flames," Oakley told Speed51.com. "I just turned left to not hit him."

Depsite losing the car, Ives took to his Facebook page to let everyone know he was OK after the incident.

"Our week is down we backed it into the wall and the car caught on fire and burned to the ground but I'm ok," he wrote.

The fiery incident burnt the track and the outside retaining wall. Some pieces of debris had to be scraped from track after melting into the racing surface, according to Speed51.com.

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BRATTLEBORO >> The town will have to spend between $391,500 and $774,000 to save the Green Street retaining wall above Harmony Lot, according to a report that was recently completed, and the Selectboard will now have to decide which method to pursue to save the failing structure.

Lower Green Street has been closed to traffic since early September when deep cracks were found in the pavement and engineers determined that the massive wall holding up the road was shifting down toward the Harmony Parking Lot.

The Public Works Department asked Stevens & Associates to evaluate the existing condition and make recommendations to address the issue, and the report laid out three different options the town could take to replace, restore or remove the stone wall. Department of Public Works Director Steve Barrett met with Town Manager Peter Elwell to talk about the options, and Barrett is expected to present the report to the Selectboard soon to make a decision about the town's next step.

"Whatever option we go with, it has to be done soon because the wall is in danger of collapsing," Barrett said. "The wall continues to move and it is a very serious situation."

Stevens & Associates engineers Brud Sanderson and Hamilton Hodgman found that the wall is currently overturning at the southeast leg, with out-of-plumb measurements exceeding one foot. The wall is failing deep within the soils holding up the road, according to the report, and the engineers are recommending a complete reconstruction or removal.

While Barrett said more work has to be done before committing to one of the three options, Barrett said he is probably going to recommend that the town rebuild the wall at a cost of about $550,000.

The town has a number of construction material options to consider, ranging in cost from $449,500 to $774,000, and Barrett said he would have more information for the Selectboard at the Feb. 17 meeting on the advantages and challenges of each material.

Along with reconstructing the wall, the report also provides information on a method using soil nails, which act to stabilize the structure instead of rebuilding it. This method would require some specialized machinery to access the site, and would cost an estimated $572,000.

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KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) -

A mother was rushed to the hospital after the car she was in rolled off a very high retaining wall and landed on its roof Thursday evening.

Chopper5 flew over the scene at East Truman Road and Hardesty Avenue about 5:35 p.m. It showed about eight or nine firefighters and half a dozen police officers surrounding a blue two-door Mustang convertible. They got a woman out of the car, onto a stretcher and to an awaiting ambulance.

The car was on its roof in the parking lot of the Wash Time laundromat and car wash, directly next to a 15-foot-tall stone retaining wall. The driver's car was on the road above, went through a fence and over the stone wall to the parking lot below, all while she was inside trying to stop it.

"I heard like something smashing," Tina Miller said.

Miller stepped outside of laundromat and then heard a woman's screams, which directed her to the awful sight. She did what she could for the woman trapped inside.

"I grabbed my phone, I called 911. She said her head was bleeding and her foot was stuck so I went and got her a wash rag," Miller said.

The woman's father told KCTV5 that 26-year-old Michelle Funk is, in his words, lucky to be alive. He said he felt helpless, standing 15-feet above her, wanting to make the jump himself to come to her aid. He said she was coming to pick up her kids from a visit with him and his wife and the car started rolling right before the kids got inside

"...she had gotten out and for unknown reasons her vehicle started rolling so she jumped back in to her vehicle to try to stop it from rolling and unfortunately was unable to," said Sgt. Deb Randol with the Kansas City Police Department.

Police since learned that the driver accidentally left her car in gear and it rolled forward.

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SIOUX CITY | Police have identified a woman who died after she hit a retaining wall with her car Wednesday as Barbara Burke, 64, of Sioux City.

Burke was seen driving fast on Military Road before her 2014 Chevrolet Malibu hit a curb just before the intersection with George Street and crashed into the wall about 2:25 p.m.. Police said Wednesday that speed appeared to have been a factor in the accident.

Burke was extricated from the car, which was pinned between a utility pole and the wall, and taken by ambulance to a hospital. Police reported Wednesday evening that she had died.

No one else was involved in the single-vehicle crash.

The investigation was continuing Thursday, a release from the Sioux City Police Department said.

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BEND, Ore. -

A 16-year-old Bend youth was arrested on DUII and other charges Saturday night after speeding and crashing his mothers car on Northeast Neff Road near Pilot Butte Middle School, police said.

The car struck a retaining wall and overturned, but the teen escaped with minor injuries, officers said.

Police responded shortly before 11 p.m. to the report of a crash on Neff Road near Northeast Eastwood Drive.

The investigation found that the boy was driving his mothers Ford Focus toward the west at a high rate of speed when it left Neff Road, hit the retaining wall and rolled, Sgt. Elizabeth Lawrence said in a news release.

The car was totaled, though the teen did not have to be extricated.

The teen was charged with DUII, criminal mischief and reckless driving, then released to his mother, Lawrence said. He also accused of violating the terms of his instructional permit, as there was no licensed driver with him.

The crash investigation and tow-truck removal of the wreckage closed Neff Road between Edgecliff and Shepard Road for about two hours.

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