HACKETTSTOWN -- A 17-year-old driver who allegedly was trying to avoid hitting deer ended up nearly hitting a person sitting inside a house and decimating a home, police said.

Local police responded to the scene of a car that crashed into a Lawrence Drive house on Friday at about 9:34 p.m., according to a Facebook post, and soon determined that the 17-year-old male driver of the 2014 BMW was trying to avoid deer.

The teen, who was from Hackettstown, was traveling west on Lawrence Drive when "he observed two deer crossing the roadway," and crashed into a home nearby, police said.

"When the car crashed into the house, it launched a computer and it (just) missed a male resident who was sitting in the room," police said.

The Hunterdon County Technical Rescue Task Force responded to shore the structure, police said, and the house was determined to be uninhabitable. No injuries were reported but the residents have been displaced, police said.

The incident is under investigation, they said.

Several agencies assisted the police: the Hackettstown Fire Department, Hackettstown Fire Police, Hackettstown Rescue Squad, Hackettstown Office of Emergency Management, Hackettstown Municipal Utility Authority, JCP&L and Elizabethtown Gas Company, according to authorities.

The police department said that more information would be available Monday. NJ Advance Media attempts to reach the department for follow-up inquiries on Saturday were unsuccessful.

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