A mother and her young children managed to escape without injury after a car collided with a house near Lethbridge.
It happened around 12:40 p.m. on Highway 512 near Readymade — about 27 kilometres east of Lethbridge — on Thursday.
Coaldale RCMP said an eastbound car drove off the road, into the ditch, then went through some trees before colliding with the home with such impact the car became wedged into the building.
The car crashed into the northwest corner of the home, where a child’s bedroom is located, the north porch was also damaged from crash.
“There were people inside the house, a mother and her young children,” said Coaldale RCMP Staff Sgt. Glenn Henry.
“We’re very fortunate that there were no injuries to the occupants of the house, but they were quite shaken up.”
The driver and lone occupant of the car, a woman in her 70s, is a resident of the Coaldale area and was trapped in the vehicle after the collision.
She was pulled out of the car by members of the Coaldale fire department before being taken by ambulance to Chinook Regional Hospital with injuries that were later confirmed by Coaldale RCMP to be serious but non-life-threatening.
The car remained lodged in the house at the scene of the crash for several hours while an assessment of the home’s structure was underway.
The car was removed later in the afternoon, after a restoration company confirmed the building to be secure.
RCMP are still investigating as to why the vehicle left the road and are asking anyone who was travelling Highway 512 near Readymade around the time of the crash, or witnessed the driving patterns of the car to come forward.