A teenager had an amazing escape after a suspected stolen car careered 150 yards down a hill - and ended up on his doorstep.

Jon Riley, 14, was making his lunch in the kitchen of his home in Argent Way in Holme Wood when the G-reg Vauxhall Cavalier smashed into the back door.

Police believe the car had been driven around Pit Hill Park which overlooks the estate before it was abandoned with its engine running.

The car then travelled through thick undergrowth, smashed through a fence, scraped along the side of one house before coming to rest outside the Riley's back door, completely blocking the doorway.

Jon said: "There was this massive bang. I ran to the back door and there was this car with the engine still running and the windscreen wipers going. I was amazed. I just didn't know where it had come from."

Jon's mum, Julie, 34, was eating her lunch in the front room when she heard the smash.

The care assistant said: "I was having a bowl of soup and I heard this almighty bang. I thought one of the kitchen cupboards had fallen off the wall.

"I couldn't believe my eyes. There was the car outside my kitchen door. I'm disgusted anyone could do something like this and it's incredible nobody has been killed."

Her next-door neighbour Suzanna Jackson said she usually put her four-month-old daughter, Amber, in her pram outside the back door.

She said: "It was raining so all three of my children were in the front room. I was upstairs when I heard the bang. They all heard it and were shaken when they saw the car outside. I won't put Amber outside now and my other two will have to play away from the fence."

PC Dave Stead said: "We don't know whether the car was abandoned at the top of the hill or deliberately pushed because there were no eye-witnesses.

"It's rolled down the hill towards these two houses but was knocked off course when it hit a fence and skirted down the side of both houses.''

He said the car was last registered by an owner in Aberdeen and checks were being made in Scotland.

Inspector Paul Jeffrey, of Odsal Police, said patrols would be stepped up in the area and urged the public to contact police if they saw cars being driven recklessly.

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