Chatsworth woman wakes to find teen has crashed car into her house

A Gympie region resident has been woken in shock and terror after a car, driven by a teenager, veered through an intersection and into her house in the middle of the night.

A Chatsworth woman has been given an unexpected late night shock after being woken up when a car smashed into the front of her house.

Susan Dan was sleeping when she heard a loud noise about midnight Sunday.

By the time she was fully awake, turned on all the lights and had reached the front of the house the driver, a teenage boy, was apologising profusely for crashing into her house.

She said she was terrified and in shock, but thankful the only damage was to a corner of the home the front of the car.

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The room on the corner of the house, where the office is, was most damaged by the impact of the car. Picture: Christine Schindler

The teenager was taken to Gympie Hospital in a stable condition with minor injuries.

“I was glad to see he was OK enough to walk around,” Mrs Dan said.

The impact of the cat smashed bricks off the side of the house, and obliterated the drainpipe.

Thankfully there did not appear to be any electrical wires damaged, Mrs Dan said, and while the windows had protruded from their frames the glass had stayed in place.

Tyre tracks from the car were left across a T-intersection outside the home.

They showed the vehicle cross the road, hit a ditch, then go directly through the driveway, missing a large gum tree and Mrs Dan’s new car, before coming to an abrupt halt at the front of the house.

Tyre tracks show the car veered through an intersection directly outside the home. Picture: Christine Schindler

The corner of the house that had been damaged was the office, and the bedroom Mrs Dan was sleeping in was at the back of the house, Mrs Dan’s son Jarrod said.

“The car did a bit of gardening,” Mr Dan pointed out, as dirt and some plants were also pulled up near the house.

“The car did a bit of gardening,” the owner’s son Jarrod Dan said. Picture: Christine Schindler

Mr Dan expressed concern over how dimly lit the street was at night and how little safety infrastructure and signage there was around the area.

His mother had lived in the home for the last 35 years, and he’d grown up in the house.

He recalled racing mowers down the road when he was a child, but that was only when there were five or so houses on the street.

Originally published as Chatsworth woman wakes to find teen has crashed car into her house