Jaguar car crashes into Holgate house and leaves huge hole

It happened today (September 20) in Sowerby Road in Holgate, at its junction with Lindsey Avenue.

A white Jaguar I-PACE  was reported to have hit the front of the bungalow.

Representatives of Northern Powergrid and City of York Council were on site and dealing with the aftermath (Image: Kevin Glenton) Emergency services were called to the scene at around 11.15am.

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust said it received an emergency call where a number of ambulance resources were dispatched to the scene, but no patients were conveyed to hospital.

A spokesperson for North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "Crews from Acomb and York, along with an officer, attended a single vehicle road traffic collision where a car had struck a property causing structural damage.

"The driver of vehicle was out on arrival with no injuries and the incident was left with police and a structural engineer."

Residents, who did not wish to be named, said they heard a very loud bang and claimed that the car looked ‘brand new’ and had private licence plates.

One resident claimed she had heard that the tenant of the property was in the kitchen having just made a cup of tea, and had just entered his living room when the crash happened.

The front of the property has almost completely been destroyed. (Image: Kevin Glenton) They added that they thought he was uninjured.

Most of the front of the house has been destroyed and representatives of City of York Council, Northern Powergrid and Ridge Property and Construction Consultants were outside the premises when The Press arrived, along with gas engineers.

The front of the property after the Jaguar was removed (Image: Kevin Glenton) Robert Burnett from City of York Council was at the scene and said that the tenant had been found temporary accommodation.