Piet (72) placed flower boxes against traffic, car still hit his house

He placed extra heavy flower boxes in the garden, because he was always afraid that someone would crash into his house from the intersection. But those boxes could not prevent Piet Verschure's (72) house from being hit anyway. That happened on Tuesday morning, when a car left the road, crashed into a cyclist and then crashed into his house on Wielstraat in Kaatsheuvel. "I was just walking out of my garage and heard a fence rattle," he says a few…