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  Sharul Nizan had initially thought that his children had been knocked down and were pinned beneath the car!

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  Abdul Razak and his niece and nephew showing where their legs had been cut by pieces of broken glass.

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  Deng's car had rammed into Sharul's parked Kancil and sent it plowing through the main door into the living room.

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MELAKA: A sick man literally gatecrashed his way into a house while driving home with his mother.

The driver, 45-year-old clerk Deng, had been feeling under the weather when he took his mother out to dinner that night.

On the way back home, he dozed off behind the wheel and crashed through the front gate of the residence.

The car continued onwards and rammed into the homeowner's Kancil, which was parked right outside the main door.

The Kancil, propelled forward by the impact, plowed through the metal grilles and smashed the glass sliding door into pieces before coming to a stop in the living room.

Despite the terrible damage to the house, the residents managed to escape relatively unscathed thanks to the quick thinking and reflexes of the homeowner's brother, 43-year-old contractor Abdul Razak.

When the Kancil crashed into the living room, all seven members of the family were watching television.

At that time, the homeowner (32-year-old self-employed Sharul Nizan) had been sitting on the sofa with his wife (28-year-old housewife Aziza Kasim) and Abdul, while his four children (aged four to ten) were lying on the living room floor.

Sharul had heard a loud noise from outside the house and then his Kancil had suddenly come crashing into the living room.

Fortunately, Abdul managed to grab his three nephews as well as his niece and push them away from the car in the nick of time.

Aside from a few cuts on their legs from the broken glass, the children and their uncle were fine. Sharul and his wife were also unhurt as they had been seated out of harm's way.

However, Deng's 87-year-old mother Fan Qiurong was injured in the leg and was sent to the hospital in an ambulance.

Sharul said that at first he had thought his niece and nephews were caught underneath the Kancil. When he realised they were safe he hugged them tightly.

Sharul revealed that his older sister had been run over by a lorry and killed on April the 29th this year, while she was out for a walk.

He was still grieving over her death and it had been terrible shock to him when he thought that he had lost his sons and daughter as well that Friday night.

Fortunately, he was mistaken and his children are very much alive and well.