Three teenage girls are fortunate to be alive after an allegedly stolen car rolled repeatedly before smashing into a family home in Queensland. The red Hyundai Accent is alleged to have ploughed through a fence and slammed windscreen-first into the corner of a two-storey house on Chambers Flat Rd at Marsden, Logan, at approximately 1:15am on Monday.
Resident David Williams told 7NEWS: “They’re lucky to be alive.” He described the incident: “They came through the fence and ... they’ve bunny-hopped over that yard pretty much, come rolling over and rolled windscreens-first into that corner. It’s ridiculous. They could have killed each other. They could have killed my son, he is in that room there sleeping.”
Williams recounted waking to the sound of “metal getting thrown around” before rushing outside to find the destroyed vehicle wedged beside one of the family’s cars. “One of the girls … got down on her knees and started praying that her friend wasn’t dead in the back of the car,” he recalled.
Williams and his son, Max Norman, rushed to help the trapped girls before paramedics arrived. Norman recalled warning others: “Don’t move her, her spine. We’ll leave her, call the ambos and whatnot.” Williams alleged one of the girls begged them not to call emergency services.
Norman said debris from the Hyundai was scattered across neighbouring properties. “The bumper’s three houses down that way,” he said. “You got the tail light here, all parts of the car through the neighbour’s yard. It’s ridiculous, I don’t even know how they managed to do that to their car. We’re on the straight road.”
A 14-year-old girl sitting in the back seat suffered serious head injuries and was rushed to Queensland Children’s Hospital. Police allege another 14-year-old girl was behind the wheel. She and a 15-year-old passenger were also taken to hospital in stable conditions with minor injuries. A 49-year-old man inside the damaged home suffered cuts to his feet after stepping on broken glass while rushing to help the girls.
Police said the house sustained “significant structural damage”. The Hyundai is alleged to have been stolen from a home on Stafford Rd at Everton Park, Brisbane, about 11:30am on Saturday, before ending up smashed into the Marsden home about 50 minutes south. Investigations are continuing and anyone with information has been urged to contact police.
