Car crashes into home

A 45-YEAR-OLD woman driver became an unexpected guest when she crash-landed her vehicle in a spare room of a Newlands West home.

Netcare 911 spokesperson Chris Botha said: “Paramedics and other services responded to a collision in Riverdene Drive, Newlands.

“Reports from the scene indicate that the vehicle failed to stop at a T-junction, crashed through a boundary wall and then smashed through the roof of a house.”

He said the crumpled remains of the car had come to rest in a spare room of the house with the driver still trapped in the wreckage.

“Three children were in the house at the time but fortunately they were in the main bedroom adjacent to the spare room.

“The rescue officer used the Jaws of Life to remove the roof of the car so that they could free the woman from the twisted metal.

“Paramedics had to clamber over rubble with their equipment to get to the patient before she could be stabilised,” he said.

Botha said that nobody else was injured in this accident.

Netcare 911 rescue officers Conrad Jones, left, and Gary Paul, inspect the premises in Newlands, where a car crashed into a home.

The roof after the car plunged into the home.