Hole lot of hooning

A MAN fled the scene of an accident after the car he was driving crashed through the side of a house at Ormeau.

A MAN fled the scene of an accident after the car he was driving crashed through the side of a house at Ormeau.

A woman and her two children fled the home after the black Proton smashed into their garage on Wednesday night.

Neighbours said the driver left the car engine running and ran off.

They said the street was notorious for hoons who were putting children's lives in danger. When The Bulletin was talking to residents in the street about 8am yesterday two cars did burnouts in the area of Wednesday night's crash.

Neighbours said they heard a car racing northbound in Philben Drive about 11pm before it left the road, taking out a letterbox and flattening a garden bed.

The car then crashed into the side of a garage and damaged a car parked inside.

Yesterday a large hole in the brick wall and debris could be seen from the road.

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Donna Wills, who lives across the road from the house, said she saw a man running away from the accident.

"He had left the car running and there was a bit of smoke coming from it but we saw the back of him as he ran away," she said.

"My husband knocked on the front door and the woman didn't even know a car had hit the house.

"Luckily they only crashed into a garage and there was no bedrooms on that side of the house."

Mrs Wills said residents in the street were sick of hoons using their street as a race track.

"Everyone is fed up with it here, especially when you have kids around. It is not safe," she said.

"They do it all the time and I've been expecting someone to come crashing through our house one of these days.

"There's a school down the road and so students are walking the street often and out playing -- these people just have no regard for anyone.

"It's even got to the stage where my husband said we might get out of here."

Police sniffer dogs were called in to comb the area after the crash.

A 28-year-old Ormeau man was yesterday charged with drink-driving and failing to remain at the scene of an accident.

He is to appear in Beenleigh Magistrates Court at a later date.

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