It might be more often than you think that life imitates art and brings the events of a game very much into the real world, but you never expect it to happen to you. That’s what happened recently in Leeds, England, when a gamer enjoying a session of Grand Theft Auto 5 had her home ploughed into by a perp escaping from the police in an SUV.
Per a report, Emma Graves was playing Grand Theft Auto 5 and ‘escaping from police’ at the moment things became all too real when a car smashed headlong into her house.
Blurring The Lines Between Fact and Fiction
In a recent report published in the Yorkshire Evening Post, Emma Graves regaled readers with a tale of near destruction. She found herself playing Grand Theft Auto 5 recently, enjoying all the trappings of the legendary, open-world crime title from Rockstar Games, when things took a drastic turn.
As she was fleeing from the police in the game, an SUV driver doing the same thing in real life decided to throw their car into Graves’ home after crashing into several other cars on the street.
In the post, Graves dubbed the incident ‘ironic’ and said:
I literally couldn’t make this up. It was not funny at the time, but it was afterwards.
The incident occurred on July 2 but was reported by the Yorkshire Evening Post just this morning. Graves has gone on to lodge a petition with the Leeds City Council for firmer traffic calming measures, but let’s not debate the fact that someone speeding away from the police will hardly abide by such measures; that’s a topic for another day.
In an even more dramatic twist, the West Yorkshire Police force report that eight arrests were made in the days after the collision in relation to a critical firearms investigation.
Graves remains in a state of anxiety following the incident, stressing that the road can be a ‘death trap’ because of all the drivers failing to follow road laws in the area.
An interesting image accompanied the original coverage from the Yorkshire Post:
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Grant has been gaming for 30+ years and in the industry for 10+. You'll probably find him playing a post-apocalyptic game or an extraction shooter somewhere.
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