The police will say that a man who crashed a car on the roof of a house on the NSW Mid-North Coast refused to carry out a breath test.
The officers were called to Hindman Street in Port Macquarie last night at 9:30 p.m. in Port Macquarie, where they supposedly found a 38-year-old man who was still caught in the vehicle.
The police said the car crashed through a security barrier and a border fence before flew into the roof of the house, which was under the street.
A 62-year-old man who was in the house was not injured.
The police said the vehicle crashed through a security barrier before he hit the house. ((Delivery: NSW police)))
The driver was caught in the wreck for about 25 minutes, but was finally released unharmed.
Michael Ward, Team of the Port Macquarie Ses Ses, said that modern car technology saved the driver's life.
“If something like this had happened 10, 15 years ago, it would have been very different. Modern cars are really good and protect the residents well.”
he said.
Kerry Maxwell says that the man in the house had just come after the accident. ((ABC News: Emma Siossian)))
Kerry Maxwell lives on the other side of the street and said that the person inside is lucky to be unharmed.
“I had just been in bed for half an hour and heard this big crash, and the ambulance and all other emergency mobs appeared,” he said.
“Apparently the guy who lives alone was just going outside – I heard that from the neighbor – to have smoke and he was in the back yard when it happened.“
Lynne Gill, located nearby, described a very loud bang. ((ABC News: Emma Siossian)))
The nearby Lynne Gill was also shocked over the loud bang.
“I heard this hellish noise,” she said.
“I didn't know what it was … there was only this big crash and more noise, more crash and then many voices with people who came out. It was incredible.
“I didn't know that it was so bad, I feel for the people who own the house because there is a lot of structural damage.”
Car that still has to be recovered
As soon as the driver was removed from the car, the ability of the SES team to do more with the vehicle was limited because it was under the street.
“I suspect
“It was on masonry, so we felt comfortable that it wouldn't go on.”
The car fell through a fence into the house that is located below the street level. ((ABC News: Emma Siossian)))
Mr. Ward said he expected the insurers of the house to decide what happened next.
“It was one of the bedrooms and there was no way to go into the room, but luckily it wasn't the main bedroom that the resident used,” he said.
“We could get him out of his things enough to stay somewhere else elsewhere.”
The driver was arrested by officials from the Mid North Coast police district at the crime scene and brought to the Port Macquarie Hospital, where he was released after a blood test.
The police said the investigation continued.