A CAR believed to have been stolen and driven by a 12-year-old boy crashed through the front door of a home in Tyndall Street, Kelso early yesterday.
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Four adults and a 16-month-old boy inside the house were lucky to escape with no serious injuries when the Nissan Skyline hit the home at 1.15am.
The occupants included 23-year-old Randall McMahon-Winter who is undergoing chemotherapy, and his sister Emerald who is nine months pregnant and due to give birth in 10 days.
Emerald and her partner Troy Bickel heard the car’s engine roaring outside and the pair arrived at the front door just as the car came crashing through.
“We were lucky nobody was killed,” Mr Bickel said yesterday morning.
“The front of the car came through the door and hit my left knee. It could have been a lot worse for me and Emerald and her baby.”
Emerald was still in shock yesterday morning, saying the drama could have brought on an early labour. She was still shaking as the damage to their house was being assessed by a Department of Housing supervisor.
When the car crashed, Emerald rang her father David McMahon-Winter who lives around the corner in Payne Close.
“When I arrived at the house the car had mounted the front porch and knocked a little garden archway flying,” Mr McMahon-Winter said.
Mr McMahon-Winter said they had heard the driver of the Nissan Skyline that failed to take a sweeping right hand bend from Bannerman Crescent into Tyndall Street was a 12-year-old, known to police and driving a stolen car.
But Chifley Local Area Command was unable yesterday to confirm any of the details of the incident.
“We heard that police had received a report of a stolen car in the Kelso area,” Mr McMahon-Winter said.
“It seems the patrol got news of the stolen car, saw it in Bannerman Crescent and immediately did a u-turn to give chase. The boy driving made a sweeping turn into Tyndall Street.
“He only just made the turn up over the gutter and lawns in front of two houses on the corner before crossing to the eastern kerb, over lawn, running over the top of the No 3 letter box, smashing into the front door of the house.
“The young bloke mustn't have been hurt. He jumped out and ran off.”