A MAN has been charged with mid-range drink driving after crashing his car into the front yard of a Port Macquarie home while the family slept inside.
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The family had a loud wake up call when the car came crashing through their fence and palms trees.
The roads were still slick with rain around 1.10am, when the silver Ford station wagon left the road just before the Pacific Drive-Timber Ridge roundabout on February 26.
There was no screech of tyres as it ploughed through a fence, palm trees and into the front yard of Kathryn Murphy's house.
"We just heard it about 1.10am, I woke up to a loud bang and came outside, and there was a car through my fence," she said.
"It had just taken out the fence and a tree, was lucky he missed the (brick) garage.
Ms Murphy said she'd never seen anything like it before and surprisingly two children in the house had slept through the noise.
"Never seen anything like it before... the driver was very apologetic," she said.
Police said the 29-year-old Port Macquarie man was driving the car with two other male passengers. No-one was injured.
He is due to appear in Port Macquarie Local Court on April 24, charged with driving with a mid-range prescribed concentration of alcohol in his blood. He was also charged with driving without a licence.
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