UPDATE: Carnage greets home owner after car crashes into house in Banstead

The black Audi containing two young men rounded a bend, hit a wall, crashed into a Land Rover in a driveway and demolished an extension of a house in Higher Drive, Banstead, at about 7.15am.

Firefighters cut the men free from the wreckage after police, ambulances and fire engines were called to the scene.

Home owner Angela Veglio was in bed upstairs when the she heard what she thought was thunder.

Ms Veglio said: "I was in bed wondering what I was going to do for the day. That’s out the window now. I just feel numb, sort of a spectator if you like."

She said the men’s legs were trapped and the passenger had a broken nose. She said: "I’m just glad they weren’t hurt.

"I could have been down near the other side of that wall. My guardian angel was looking after me."

Ms Veglio inspects the damage

She said the extension, which was known as the library, had gone.

She said: "The whole side of the house will have to come down. There’s debris all over the back garden.

"Even down to the bottom of the garden, a brick's gone through the shed. There’s a piece of brick embedded in my little mountain ash tree."

She said she was also worried her Land Rover will have to be written off.

She said: "I love my car and it’s old. That saved the men's lives, I think.

"If my car hadn’t been there they would have gone through and hit the grand piano."

Neighbour Karen Roebuck, who came to Ms Veglio’s aid, said: "I heard this bang. 

"I thought someone was having a skip delivered and dropped it making this bang and vibration.

"I went upstairs, looked out the window and there were all the police and fire brigade."

She said she came outside and found Ms Veglio in the garden.

Ms Veglio looks on as the car is removed 

Ms Roebuck said: "She was shaken up. I think it might hit her again later. I don’t think it’s quite sunk in.

"I’m just glad she’s alright. And them, I know it’s a stupid thing they did but I’m so relieved they are ok."

PC Traylor, from the Road Death Investigation Unit at Hampton, said they were called because the men were initially thought to be in a life threatening condition.

But he said after being freed from the car, they in fact turned out to be ‘walking wounded’.

He said: "We are limited in what we can say because motoring offences are being dealt with.

"There were two occupants of the car, young men, and they are likely to have been travelling at speed when they lost control at the bend and have gone into the house.

The wrecked Audi

"The engine came out. The side of the house has got demolished."

A man, who asked for anonymity, said he believed both men in the car were from Merton and the 19-year-old passenger had a bruised lung, broken nose and lacerations to the left leg.

He said: "It’s just terrible obviously. Just seeing it is shocking. It’s like something out of a movie.

"All I know is they are both well, there are no serious injuries. They are extremely lucky."