Melbourne:
An Australian man is lucky to be alive after a car crashed into his house on Friday in Melbourne's outer east suburb and landed on the bed in which he had been sleeping moments before.
Demitrios Bisbelis got out of bed briefly about 0200 AEDT on Friday morning (about 1600 GMT on Thursday evening) to use his computer in another room, when a car came crashing through his bedroom.
Bisbelis told reporters that he had initially thought it had been an earthquake.
"I'm quite lucky I'm alive because I'm normally in bed at this time of the night," he added.
Police said that a car driven by a 52-year-old hit a median strip on the road, became airborne and ploughed through a fence before crashing into the house.
Adele McMannis from the State Emergency Service said that damage was also caused to the house next door when the car crashed through a fence.
"As it has gone through the front fence, it's actually taken a picket out and that's flicked over the roof of the first house and damaged part of the roof of the neighbouring house," she said.
The driver and a male passenger, also 52, suffered minor injuries.
They were taken to Melbourne's Frankston Hospital in a stable condition, an ambulance spokesperson said.
The two men will be interviewed by police.
The car was towed from the property later on Friday.