A $2.3 million house on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula collapsed down a cliff in a landslide on Tuesday morning. A council worker was injured and transported to hospital in a stable condition. Eleven houses in the area have been deemed uninhabitable, and Point Nepean Road is expected to be closed for at least a week as authorities assess the situation.
A house collapse d down a cliff at Point Nepean Road and Penny Lane in McCrae, on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne . Stormy weather is forecast in the area on Wednesday afternoon.A house collapse d down a cliff at Point Nepean Road and Penny Lane in McCrae, on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne . Stormy weather is forecast in the area on Wednesday afternoon.On Tuesday morning, a $2.3m house on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula collapsed down a cliff in a landslide.
State Emergency Service controller, Mark Daw told 3AW radio on Wednesday morning houses had been evacuated.Daw said he expected Point Nepean Road would be closed for at least a week, with geotechnical engineers, working to mitigate risks at the site. “We are very grateful that nobody died today,” owner Nick Moran told media outlets in a written statement.
“It looks like it has destroyed our house which doesn’t matter in the overall scheme of things but narrowly missed my daughter and wife let alone the stack of people we entertained there over the break.”A Mornington Peninsula Shire council worker, aged in his 50s, suffered injuries to his lower limbs after he was forced to jump from the second storey of the house as it started to slide down the cliff face in the collapse.
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