Car crashes into home

Reporter: Rosalyn Roden
Date published: 06 March 2017


A CAR smashed into a house on Sunday afternoon while a 94-year-old woman was downstairs.

The woman was listening to an audiobook in her rear dining room when the blue Ford Focus collided with the front of her home.

The great-grandmother was taken to hospital for precautionary checks after the car, believed to have been chased by police, crashed into her house in Ashton-under-Lyne.

Emergency services arrived at the scene at about 2.30pm on Sunday.

Photos show the car partway through the front of the end terrace house in Alexandra Road, at the junction with Henrietta Street.

Two fire engines were sent to the scene by Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service along with a specialist trauma response unit.

Witnesses claim a man who was driving ran from the scene towards the King George V Playing Fields.

An arrest is believed to have since been made.

The surrounding area was sealed off by police while investigations were carried out.

* FIREFIGHTERS were called to a car on fire in Glodwick in the early hours of Sunday morning.


One fire engine from Oldham turned out to Nether Hey Street at 1am where a black Vauxhall Astra was ablaze.

Crew commander Steve Broadhurst said: "The car was totally burnt out.

"It is understood that it was a deliberate fire. The police are investigating."