Roma ute crash: Putt family tell of moment out of control car slammed into their Queens St home

A Roma family has revealed their six-year-old daughter was playing in the lounge room of their home just minutes before a ute careened through the wall, throwing debris across the room. Full details:

A normal Sunday night for a Roma family nearly turned to tragedy when an out-of-control car crashed into their home, coming to a rest where their daughter, 6, was playing just minutes earlier.

Donna and William Put tucked their young daughter to bed a little before 8pm and shortly after a ute slammed through the wall of their home and into their lounge room.

Aftermath of a ute slamming into Donna and William Putt's Roma home on June 19, 2022.

“We put the kids to bed and laid down in bed ourselves for less than a minute, basically,” Mr Putt said.

“We heard this noise coming down the road, sounded like a car towing an empty trailer.

“Then the noises got louder and all of a sudden a big, huge crash, and shaking in the house, glass shattering.”

Aftermath of a ute slamming into Donna and William Putt's Roma home on June 19, 2022.

He described the feeling in the immediate aftermath as “ungodly” as the couple raced to their daughter’s room to ensure she was okay.

Thankfully the family was uninjured, after the Mazda ute lost control on Queens St, hitting a power pole and then careening into the family’s house.

Donna said the incident was a “bloody big fright”, and revealed just how close it was to being a horrific tragedy.

A piece of framework laying wear the Putt’s youngest daughter had been playing just minutes earlier.

“We had actually just been (in the room) 15 minutes earlier, and where everything fell was on a teepee my six-year-old daughter was sitting in,” Ms Putt said.

“If it had been 15 minutes earlier, my little girl would have been seriously injured.”

Aftermath of a ute slamming into Donna and William Putt's Roma home on June 19, 2022.

The crash left the home looking “like a war zone”, with a gaping hole in the lounge room.

The SES erected a tarp to cover the damage until repairs can be made, but with temperatures dipping into the low single digits at night, Ms Putt said the home’s heater was “working overtime”.

Aftermath of a ute slamming into Donna and William Putt's Roma home on June 19, 2022.

Mr Putt described the female driver as “hysterical” in the moments following the crash, and explained the couple’s older son Daniel “went full hero mode” in stopping the woman from coming into contact with live powerlines.

The woman, aged in her 20s, was later taken to Roma Hospital in a stable condition with neck pain.

A car slammed into the front lounge room of a Roma family's home, disturbing what was a peaceful Sunday night on the usually quiet stretch of road.

The force of the impact with the power pole was so great it sheared the pole off at ground level and dug a trench into the ground as the pole came down.

The family was full of praise for the emergency services that arrived on scene to assist them.

Ms Putt also singled out Michaela from MAA and Taylor’s Mechanical for collecting the vehicle from the house, as well as the Roma community who rallied for them, saying even strangers had showed concern for the family’s wellbeing.

Police confirmed investigations into the crash are ongoing.