County Durham home boarded up as Vauxhall cause 'substantial damage'
A County Durham home has been boarded up after a car crashed into the property late on Saturday afternoon.
The incident happened shortly after 3pm on Saturday, September 26 in East View, Easington Colliery.
The North East Ambulance Service, County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service and Durham Constabulary were all in attendance.
A spokesperson for the North East Ambulance Service said: "We were alerted to a collision between a car and a house in Easington Colliery at 3.18pm.
"We dispatched an emergency ambulance crew, a hazardous area response team (HART) crew and a clinical team leader.
"Fortunately there were no injuries.
"We kept one crew on scene while the fire service and gas company secured the property against a suspected gas leak before standing down."
A spokesperson for the County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service said: “We received a report of a vehicle colliding with a house in the East View area of Easington Colliery.
“One crew from Peterlee attended to assist, leaving the area at 4.34pm.”
A spokesperson for Durham Constabulary said: “Shortly after 3.15pm on Saturday, police were alerted by fire service colleagues to an incident in which a Vauxhall Corsa car had collided with a house in East View, Easington Colliery, causing substantial damage.
"There were no reported injuries but police attended to help manage the scene while engineers assessed the safety of the gas network.”
The County Durham home remains boarded up, and barriers have been put in place around the scene.