Skye Haining points to the hole in her home just above her children's bedrooms and says she is thankful they were not hurt on Wednesday night when a small tip truck crashed into their Milton home.
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Luckily, the children were not in the bedroom when the two-tonne Hino tipper truck, being driven north on the Princes Highway by a 26-year-old Illawarra woman left the road and smashed into their home at 7.30pm.
Skye's four children and her partner Ben Argent were in the property at the time.
"The house just shook," was how Skye described the impact.
"Ben ran out and said 'call the ambulance'."
The family was just about to sit down and watch the State of Origin.
Skye's grateful the vehicle did not go through the nearby front window because that is where they were all sitting.
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The children, aged from five to 12-years, are "doing fine" according to Ms Haining, "considering the events and all went to school today."
She said the injured woman was trapped in the car for an hour and a half.
"She wanted me to call her partner and call her mother," Skye said.
"She was just screaming and saying she could not feel her legs."
The injured woman was able to tell Skye how to get into her phone to make the calls.
The driver of the vehicle is a road worker and was driving a small tip truck with soil in the back of it at the time
Police said the tipper had crossed to the wrong side of the road before traveling down a small embankment and crashing into the lower level of the two-storey home.
"I called triple zero and the ambulance and police came within eight to 10 minutes," Skye said
"The woman was transported by helicopter to Sydney and was still conscious."
The Toll NSW Ambulanace rescue helicopter landed at the nearby helipad on Croobyar Road.
The family has lived in the house for four years and said the clean-up was finished by midnight.
The house was recently sold and the new owners were coming to Milton on Thursday to inspect the damage.
It [the property] looks to have suffered some structural damage.
The family was told to move to the other side of the house when the vehicle was removed from the structure.
Fire and Rescue NSW Station 477 Ulladulla, SES. Police and NSW Ambulance teams all attended the incident.
A fire and rescue spokesperson described the incident was a complex, multi-agency rescue with a good outcome.
"The level of entrapment was tricky," the spokesperson said.
"Her head was out window tangled in door frame, hard up against house and lower body crushed.
"We had to free head, stabilise the house, winch vehicle off the house and then release her legs from compression.
"It [the operation] went well, pretty sure she's gonna be okay too."