A woman was awakened from her sleep when a car ploughed into the bedroom in her Rhos-on-Sea bungalow.

No-one was injured, although substantial damage was done to the front of the house by the people carrier type vehicle. Emergency services quickly arrived at the address in Rochester Avenue.

The house owner John Hopkins said: “I had just got up to make a cup of tea when the vehicle hit the front of our house, my wife was still fast asleep and had a very unpleasant awakening.

"Thank heavens she was not hurt, but was very shaken. A cup of tea helped her, but I expect shock will kick in later on today.

"I called the police and ambulance and they both arrived very quickly, as did the council's building people.

He added: "What I believe happened is that the driver of the vehicle parked up the hill from us and went into a house to visit a friend. Shortly afterwards her car started to roll downhill and must have hit the kerb which turned its steering pointing it in the direction of our home.

"Strangely the car bounced onto the grassy bank in front of our house and passed between two trees scarcely wider than it, before plunging through our garden wall and into our bedroom."

He said: they had lived in the bungalow since 2015.

A North Wales Police spokesman said: “We were called to the incident this morning, and while no-one was hurt a structural engineer has been called to the scene to assess the extent of the damage and ascertain whether it was still structurally intact."

A spokesman for the North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said they had sent an appliance to the scene.

Within a matter of hours a building contractor had started work shoring up the front of the badly damaged house and make the property safe.