A FAMILY have been uprooted after a car ploughed into their Oakwell house as they slept upstairs.

Ramesh Nerella, his wife Sunitha and two young children will be away from home for Christmas as repair works on their home on Oakwell Vale could take between four and six months.

They had gone to bed early when they heard a huge crash.

When they rushed downstairs, they found a huge hole in the side of their house and the road had been blocked off by police.

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