A HAMPSHIRE family were rescued from their home after a car crashed into it during rush hour.

Fire fighters had to help a middle-aged mum and her young boy flee from their Old Basing home after a Renault Clio ploughed into it at about 7.55am yesterday.

The car ploughed in through the front door and into the hall way after it was believed the male driver suffered a "medical event" in Belle Vue Road.

The homeowners had to use a ladder to climb out of a first storey window.

Two crews from Basingstoke fire station and Hartley Wintney fire station had cut a 60-year old man from the car.

A spokesman for South Central Ambulance Service said they believed the motorist had "some sort of medical event which led to him veering off the road".

An ambulance took him to Basingstoke Hospital where his condition is said to be non life-threatening".

It is not believed he suffered any injuries from the crash.

The occupants of the house were not injured in the incident but were “shocked and shaken” from the incident.

Road closures were put been in place between Cavalier Road and Fairthorne Rise but the road has now re-opened.