THE peace and quiet of a Saturday evening with friends was shattered in dramatic fashion when a driver smashed through the window of a bungalow.

Despite the crash site resembling a scene from a Hollywood movie, no one in the Portslade home was injured in the incident and the elderly driver walked away suffering just shock.

Jackie Newland, 74, was playing host to one of her daughters and two friends at the time in another room.

Granddaughter Elli Macdiarmid, 23, who lives with her mother down the road, told of her shock on hearing the smash.

She said: “I was horrified. I didn’t know what was going on I just ran to the house and checked everyone was OK. It was horrible.

“The driver was fine, he was in shock too but he had got out of the car and was just sitting down by the side of the road.”

According to witnesses the driver, an elderly man, lost control of the vehicle in Southdown Road, Portslade.

The Volkswagen saloon left the road and careered through the wall surrounding Mrs Newland’s single-storey home before smashing into the spare room through the window.

The dramatic photograph shows the extent of the damage to the house, with the guttering pressed against the roof of the car.

The accident happened at 6pm on Saturday.

The building was inspected by a council expert before the car was safely removed, a police spokesman said.

He added that no arrests had been made.

The driver had to get out of the car through the passenger-side door as his door was wedged shut against brickwork.

Mrs Newland’s daughter Toni, who was down the road in her own house at the time, said her mother was feeling well despite the fright.

She said: “She’s fine, she was just shaken from the noise.

“And the driver was fine as well but he was really shaken up, the poor thing.

“The first thing I knew was when my sister called and said ‘A car has come through Mum’s window’.”