'People need to wake up'

Ross Carroll’s year started with a bang.

The Durlacher Street homeowner was lying in bed listening to the radio yesterday morning when he heard the glass cabinet in his lounge room smash.

To his horror, he found a white Holden Commodore had driven straight through the front of his home, with three people inside.

“I was lying in bed about 8am, I had the radio on and I was listening to the news and I heard the cabinet make a loud bang,” he said.

“When my wife and I went to have a look, there was a car in our lounge room.

“It’s scary to think if we had been sitting on the couch or the car had taken the other side of the house, we may not have been so lucky.”

Mr Carroll said he was annoyed his family would have to pay for the consequences of somebody else’s actions.

“I am doing OK but my wife is very distressed by what has happened to us, it’s not the best start to the New Year,” he said.

“People need to wake up — they drink and drive and carry on and don’t think it could affect other people, but they need to think of the consequences.

“There have been enough hooligans in town with break-ins and road incidents — people need to wake up and stop being dickheads — think before you act.”

Police have charged a 16-year-old female in relation to the incident.

It is alleged the car was travelling 94km/h in a 50km/h zone before taking a right turn, hitting the kerb and crashing through the property.

A 22-year-old male passenger was taken to Geraldton Hospital with a suspected ankle fracture and a 16-year-old female passenger suffered facial injuries and a suspected broken wrist.

Police have charged the driver with failure to stop for police, two counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm and no authority to drive.

Senior Constable Keith Burrows said the station had received several reports of the vehicle before the arrest.

The youth will appear in Geraldton Children’s Court at a later date.