UPDATE: POLICE have charged a man for high-range drink driving after the car he was in lost control, mounted a curb and took out a fence and carport.
About 5.15am Wednesday emergency services were called to Tillie Street, Wallsend, to reports a car had crashed into a house.
Newcastle police officers attended the scene and were told a Mercedes sedan had been travelling down the suburban street when it collided with another car, before mounting the kerb and hitting a parked car, causing it to roll forward and hit a neighbouring house.
The Mercedes then crashed through a fence before hitting a carport and causing significant structural damage.
Paramedics attended the scene, but no one was injured during the incident.
Police spoke with the driver, a 25-year-old man, at the scene where he allegedly returned a positive roadside breath test.
He was arrested and taken to Waratah police station, where a subsequent breath analysis returned a reading of 0.162, police said.
He was charged with high range PCA and issued a Court Attendance Notice to appear at Newcastle Local Court on Thursday November 26.
EARLIER REPORT
POLICE are investigating after a car crashed into a house in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Emergency services were called to a home on Tillie Street Wallsend at 5.15am to reports of a car crash.
On arrival at the scene they found a vehicle had lost control and careened into a home. According to reports the driver of the car attempted to flee the scene after the crash.
NSW Ambulance said one crew attended, but luckily no one was injured.
Police will now investigate the circumstances leading up to the crash.
More details to come.
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