A MAN has been taken to hospital after a car ploughed into a parked vehicle and crashed into a house.

Residents heard a huge crash at around 8pm on Sunday, July 7 before seeing the car embedded into the house in Cranleigh Road, Bournemouth.

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Next-door neighbour, Ivonne Steel, said she heard a “loud bang” while watching television before seeing her neighbour’s wheelie bin in her garden.

Damage shows the bin hit an upstairs window before falling into Ivonne’s garden.

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She added the homeowner was in the building at the time of the crash, but was thankfully in the back of the property.

It is also understood the owner had recently sold her home and was due to move next week.

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Another neighbour, Mrs Smith, who lives across the road, said she heard a “massive thud” that sounded like thunder.

She did not inspect the sound until later in the evening when putting her rubbish bins out and saw the emergency services.

A spokesperson for Dorset Police said: “At 7.49pm on Sunday 7 July 2024 Dorset Police received a report of a collision in Cranleigh Road in Bournemouth, involving two vehicles which subsequently collided with a house.

“Officers attended the incident with the ambulance and fire services.”

Police said an arrest has been made and one person was taken to hospital, his injuries are not believed to be life-changing of life-threatening.

The spokesperson added: “There will be an increased police presence in the area as officers carry out further enquiries. We would like to thank members of the public for their patience and understanding as emergency services deal with the incident.”

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A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: “We were called at 20:04hrs on Sunday 7 July to an incident in Bournemouth. We sent two double-crewed land ambulances to the scene and we conveyed one patient by land ambulance to Poole Hospital.”

A spokesperson for Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "Police asked us to attend a property in Cranleigh Road, Bournemouth at 8pm last night (7 July) after two vehicles collided with it.

"A crew from Christchurch attended and helped to make the scene safe, and our stop was at 9.35pm.

"It looks as though one vehicle was removed last night and the other will be moved today once the house has been inspected by a structural engineer."