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Mark Branagan & Milo Boyd

Teen driver ploughs dad's car into living room 'while taking child for a ride'

A teenage learner driver ploughed her dad’s car into a family’s living room while taking a child for a ride, a resident has claimed.

The driver - understood to be a 17-year-old girl - had borrowed her dad’s car on Friday evening and taken a girl, aged five to seven, for a spin.

The Toyota Verso was ploughed into the house in Bradford, West Yorkshire a short while later, injuring both the people onboard.

Neither of the girls are thought to be suffering from life threatening injuries.

A large emergency service response rushed to the scene with firefighters assessing the stability of the house before police organised the removal of the silver vehicle.

Both people in the car were injured in the crash (Ben Lack-YappApp)

Police said: "Emergency services were called to a road traffic collision on Heights Lane, Heaton, Bradford, close to the junction with Haworth Road, shortly after 7:30pm last night.

"The incident involved a car which was in collision with a residential property.

"Two females were taken to hospital where their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening."

A resident has claimed that the girl was driving the car with just a provisional license.

The fire service added: "It was a request for us from the police after a car had gone through the bay window of a house.

"There was nobody trapped but there was a fuel leak.

"We sent the technical rescue unit from Cleckheaton and Fairweather Green was also in attendance.

"We assessed the stability of the house and then police organised recovery."

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