This was the devastating scene of wreckage after a 16-year-old boy ploughed a stolen Mercedes into the front of a family home during a police chase in Salford.
The home was so badly damaged during the crash on December 18 last year the family had to move out as it was declared unsafe, police say.
The £50,000 car had been stolen from Cadishead earlier that day, before the teen, who cannot be named, lost control while being pursued by police.
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Normally the family's two young children would have been eating breakfast in the room the Mercedes crashed into, but that day were ill so had stayed in bed.
On Friday the youth, from Salford, was sentenced at Manchester magistrates' court for dangerous driving, aggravated vehicle taking, driving without a licence and driving without insurance.
He given a youth rehabilitation order, an activity requirement, a three month curfew, fined £85, and banned from driving for 12 months.
A post on the GMP Eccles, Cadishead, Barton and Irlam Facebook page: "The two young children who lived with their parents in the home, would normally been eating breakfast the other side of that wall.
"Fortunately, they were both feeling poorly and stayed in bed that morning.
"The house was so badly damaged the family had to move out of their home due to it being unsafe.
"As if the family had not suffered enough, the house was burgled a couple of weeks later and property stolen."
