Another house bites the dust...

[Jim Goose]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-1...apping/2905684

Man struck as car smashes through house

A young family is lucky to be alive after a car crashed through a home in the northern Perth suburb of Tapping.

Police say the car, which was travelling at high speed, crashed through the front lounge room window of the home in Ashley Road about 7:00 pm last night.

It continued on through the kitchen into the family room and out the back wall coming to a rest on the patio.

A man inside the house, Ian Keep, was hit by the car and was taken to hospital where his injuries are being assessed.

His wife and young son escaped injury.

His wife Victoria says she was putting her two and a half year old son Blain to bed when she heard a clap like thunder.

She says she thought there had been a gas explosion but then realised a car had crashed through the house.

Victoria Keep says she rushed out to find her husband but had to dig him out from under the rubble.

"I was screaming for my husband," she said.

"I went out the back of the house and he was buried under rubble and I had to dig him out.

"He was covered in blood and I didn't know what was going on, I didn't know if he was ok or not."

A neighbour says he heard the commotion and rushed outside thinking a tree had fallen on the house.

He says the driver attempted to flee but the young man was caught by police.

Police say the 24 year-old driver is likely to be charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.

The family had moved to Perth just four months ago from the UK.

It is now waiting to hear if their rented house must be demolished.