Seventeen-year-old driver Mitch Hill and his passenger James Harrison walked away from the Tasman Rd accident, despite destroying the car and a section of an elderly couple’s house.

Mitch was behind the wheel when he lost control of the Holden two-door sports car while turning from Koala St into Tasman Rd about 1pm.

Mitch, from Wauchope, said he “shifted gear wrong”, causing the car to careen across the front lawn of Joe and Mavis Quinn’s home and slam into their garage.

“It was a hell of a noise,” said 86-year-old Mr Quinn. “It sounded like a helicopter flew over us and then our next door neighbour told us a car had gone into the house.”

The elderly couple, who have lived in the house for 21 years, were watching TV on the other side of the house at the time.

“We are just blessed it didn’t hit the front bedrooms,” Mr Quinn said.

“It just scraped along the back of the bumper bar of my car and took the front part of the garage out.

“As long as no one got hurt, all the rest is repairable.”

Ambulance officers treated Mitch for shock at the scene.

He told the Port News he was feeling “pretty average” after the accident.

His St Columba Anglican School mate, who is a learner driver, was left shaken by the incident.

Port Macquarie Fire Brigade sprayed a layer of foam to suppress vapours from a fuel leak.

Country Energy disconnected the electricity to the site and the Port Macquarie Hastings State Emergency Service stabilised the building.

Police investigations are continuing.