A man has crashed his car into a Geelong house after allegedly trying to avoid a police breath test.
Police stopped the man in his Holden Commodore on the Princes Highway at Norlane about 10.45pm on Thursday.
As police prepared to give him an alcohol breath test, the man sped off, only to crash into a weatherboard house on Rose Avenue a short time later.
A 90-year-old woman and a 55-year-old woman were in the lounge room of the house at the time. They were taken to Geelong Hospital where they were treated for bruising.
The 42-year-old driver, from nearby Batesford, has been charged with possessing cannabis, driving an unregistered vehicle, dangerous speeding, recklessly causing injury, careless driving and dangerous driving.
He is due to face Geelong Magistrates Court on July 16.
It is the second time a car has crashed into a Geelong house this week. A four-month-old girl was left with life-threatening head injuries after a car slammed into her family’s Boundary Road home at Breakwater on Sunday night. The driver had failed to negotiate a roundabout.
In other recent incident, a car crashed into a business in Coburg on April 20.
This story first appreared in The Age
