‘We were shaken, but not stirred’ say elderly couple after car crashes into their front bedroom

WHEN John and Catherine Tynan went to bed at 9pm on Tuesday, they never imagined being woken in a couple of hours by a car landing in a spare front bedroom.

Catherine and John Tynan said it was horrifying to see a car in the bedroom. Picture: Vanessa Bradbury

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WHEN John and Catherine Tynan went to bed at 9pm on Tuesday, they never imagined being woken in a couple of hours by a car landing in a spare front bedroom.

The Stanhope Gardens couple were woken just before 11pm by a “violent loud bang”, which they initially thought was the result of a collision on the busy intersection near their home.

“We were shaken, but not stirred,” Mr Tynan said.

The door of the car which landed in the front bedroom of the Tynan's home.

“As we live near the main road, you hear accidents but we never thought it would be a car into our house.”

By the time they went outside, neighbours had arrived and Mrs Tynan called triple-zero (000).

“It was horrifying to see a car in the bedroom, however, I have to say the emergency services were quick to the scene and were just amazing,” Mrs Tynan said.

The damaged spare room. Picture: Justin Sanson

“The female driver was able to get out of the car and was put on a chair and consoled by some of our neighbours, while her passenger took a little while longer to get out as Fire and Rescue had to remove the car door to get her out ... We understand the two ladies in the car were nurses or carers for the elderly and just finished work.”

Mr Tynan said he is “amazed” the car did not hit a light post or a tree on the way to colliding with their house as the path the car took “freakishly” missed all these obstacles to land in their home.

John Tynan looks at the damaged bedroom. Picture: Seven News

A police report said two cars collided at the intersection of Sunnyholt Rd and Stanhope Parkway, Stanhope Gardens, at 10.45pm on Tuesday, causing a silver Lexus with two women inside to travel through the front yard of the Tynan’s home into a bedroom.

The driver and passenger of the Lexus, were treated by paramedics before being taken to Blacktown Hospital as a precaution.

The driver of the Camry, a 50-year-old man and his female passenger aged in her 30s, were uninjured.

Stanhope Gardens: A car has crashed into a Guernsey Way home after an earlier crash at the intersection of Sunnyholt Road and Stanhope Pkwy. pic.twitter.com/BUKnX8M8Km

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“Structurally, our house is sound, the car just brought down the brick work in our front bedroom and our insurers arrived at 3am and set up a temporary repair straight away,’’ Mr Tynan said.

The couple stayed with their daughter and son-in-law in Castle Hill before returning home.

However, their cat Cutie who resided in the spare room, went missing for 24 hours but has returned to find another part of the home to call her own.