BY IAN CROUCH
A driver and the occupants of a house have had a lucky escape after a car crashed into the front of a home at Highfields on Sunday night.
Emergency services were called to reports of a persons trapped crash on Kahibah Road just before 9.30pm to find a car had left the road and crashed into the front porch of a home.
The driver managed to escape uninjured.
Newcastle Fire Command says the house suffered only minimal damage.