At 4.30pm on Thursday, Gunnedah Fire and Rescue were called to a house on the corner of George Street and Links Road after a car crashed into the front of the home.

Paramedics freed the elderly driver from the car, and Fire and Rescue crews provided fire protection and tidied some of the debris from one of the rooms in the house.

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Gunnedah SES installed acro-props to maintain the structural integrity of the house, and then used a winch to tow the vehicle out of the property.

No one was injured in the crash, but the driver was taken to hospital for observations, emergency services said..

At about 6.30am on Friday, emergency services were then called to Carroll Street where, according to Andrew Johns from Fire and Rescue, a car had "snapped a power pole clean off".

Gunnedah Police Leading Senior Constable Damian Wood said the driver in this accident wasn't injured but was also taken to hospital for observations.

The accident caused power outages in Gunnedah for about half-an-hour.

Senior Constable Wood said the police would not be investigating the accidents any further, but both the drivers would be assessed for medical clearances for their licences.

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