Lister Drive family want speed humps installed after car crashes into house

Luke and Karen Hannon said they'd been left "on edge" after a car struck their Lister Drive house on Saturday night, narrowly missing the room their three children were playing in, only to be told by neighbours after the incident "this wasn't the first time it had happened".

The family only moved in to the house in January, but long-term neighbours told Mr Hannon on Saturday it was the second time the house had been struck, while their neighbours had also apparently been hit twice in recent years.

The two houses are at the bend of Lister Drive at the bottom of a hill, near its intersection with Anson Street.

"A long-term neighbour across the road said both of them had been hit multiple times so we can't put it down to a freak accident," Mr Hannon said.

"It's obviously happened before and is only a matter of time before it happens again."

Mrs Hannon said the couple's three boys - aged 13 and nine-year-old twins - were playing in the front room, only two metres from where the car struck the double-bricked garage, knocking over a section of wall.

"We're so lucky it hit where it hit, if it had hit this window that was where the kids were," she said.

"It gives you goosebumps to think about it."

She'd been terrified when she'd heard the car coming down the hill, and when it hit the house it sounded like "a bomb going off"

The three children were distressed by the crash metres from where they were sitting, and Mrs Hannon said they were still "nervous" after the incident.

"They want to sleep together now which is just their way of dealing with it, it's scared the sh*t out of them," Mrs Hannon said.

"No-one got hurt, that's the saving grace at the moment."

The couple want Orange City Council to explore placing speed humps on Lister Drive to control the safe flow of traffic.

They said they were worried more houses or cars parked on the street - or worse, people - may be hit again in the future.

No-one was injured in the incident, which was attended by emergency services on Saturday.

A 20-year-old man was arrested after the incident and will face Orange Local Court on August 17 after police alleged he returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.112.