The couple and their two children are without a home (Picture: Steve Finn)
A family of four is without a home after a car rammed into their spare room on Christmas Day morning.
At around 10am on December 25, Florin Maracinenu, 34, and Ana Diaconu, 30, were shocked when a black BMW careened into their home in Grays, Essex.
The family fled with their two children, two and nine, after smelling gas, but have nowhere to go, they told The Sun.
Ana said: ‘We felt the bed shake and after we heard the noise we definitely knew that there was a car or an explosion downstairs.
‘We knew straight away that it was a car because we could hear the engine. We were in the bedroom above the room that has been destroyed.
‘I still can’t believe it. We are so lucky that no one was in the room, otherwise they would be dead.’
Rubble from the accident is still in the family’s front garden (Picture: Steve Finn)
Firefighters had to put up support beams at the scene (Picture: Steve Finn)
Firefighters rushed to the scene and were forced to put up support beams to help stabalise the building due to the extensive damage.
An 18-year-old local man was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving but has been since released on bail.
But as Ana and Florin are without a roof over their heads, neighbours have ‘rallied’ around them to help provide places to stay temporarily.
Ana added: ‘We’re gonna stay tonight and tomorrow (with a friend) but we need to go somewhere.
‘The insurance company has offered us a hotel but we have two kids. They need food and clothes and toys.’
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Elsewhere in the UK, a car that crashed into a Salisbury bungalow is still wedged into the front wall.
Astonishing pictures from the scene on a residential street in Salisbury, Wiltshire, show a navy blue Vauxhall halfway inside the property, lodged into the brickwork.
The wall of the house appears to be holding the car afloat above the ground a good couple of feet below.
It seems the car is rather stuck, so much so that a glass window damaged in the smash has been boarded up around the outside edge of the vehicle.
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An 18-year-old local man was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving but has been since released on bail.