North Road crash: Car drives into home in Centennial Park, Albany, in suspected medical episode

Several people miraculously escaped serious injury after a car crashed into a unit on a busy road in Albany in a terrifying ordeal believed to have been caused by a medical episode. Emergency services were notified of the crash about 5:30pm on Wednesday near North Road and Beaufort Road in Centennial Park, Albany. Tyre marks at the scene indicated the white Subaru Outback station sedan drove through the parking lot of the Free Reformed Church of Albany, through fencing, over North Road, and collided with the front wall of a one-storey unit. It appeared that the vehicle may also have been airborne at one point. Police confirmed that the people inside the home and the driver and his passenger were all unharmed. The 62-year-old male driver and a 15-year-old female passenger were taken to Albany Health Campus by St John WA at normal road speed for assessment. Police and emergency services were on the scene as emergency services worked to secure the building before removing the car. Police inquiries into the cause of the incident are ongoing but it is understood to have been caused by a medical episode.