Young driver goes through the roof as flying car takes off

Two young Sydney men have done their best impersonation of the Dukes of Hazzard following a high-speed accident, launching their car 15 metres into the air and somersaulting into a Sydney home's roof.

The men, 21 and 25, were driving north on Sunnyholt Drive about 2am yesterday when they lost control and careered off the road. Smashing through traffic lights, a signal box and a telegraph pole, the late-model Holden Commodore sped across a grassed area and up a dirt mound, launching into the air.



Police were initially unable to find the car that caused the damage. Then they looked up.

''[We] finally located the vehicle inside the roof of a house,'' Inspector Adrian Grech from Blacktown police said.



No one was seriously injured, including the family of three asleep inside, but police found debris, including a tyre and a steel pole from the road scattered 100 metres from the crash.

Yesterday the 21-year-old from Beaumont Hills had been released from hospital and was being interviewed by police. The 25-year-old was in a stable condition in hospital.