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No one injured when car plows into house in Cumming
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The Technical Rescue Team responded to the scene, and stabilized the house to prevent further damage. - photo by Jim Dean

CUMMING -- Homeowner Josephine Jefferson credits a miracle for saving her grandchildrens' lives when a car drove through the back wall of her family's home on Beacon Ridge at about 5 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

Jefferson said the kids, along with their father, had just come to her side of the duplex when the car came crashing in off Hutchinson Road behind Lakeland Plaza.

"We had a man doing some work, and he'd come over so we could talk about that," she said. "Thank God the children weren't in the house."

The car smashed through the back wall of the house.

"It pushed over the couch and landed on the fireplace," Jefferson said.  

The Forsyth County Fire Department Technical Rescue team responded and used wooden timbers to shore up the back of the structure, which is now missing about a third of the back wall.

"Those men are angels. I didn't know they did things like this," said Jefferson as she waved goodbye to the firefighters after they'd finished.  

Jefferson said there were two young people in the car and that she understood that one may have been teaching the other how to drive, using the quiet cul-de-sac roads inside the subdivision for practice.

The American Red Cross responded to assist the family with finding a place to stay while the damage to the home is evaluated.