A 30-year-old man will face the ACT Magistrates Court after a car crashed into the main gates of Canberra’s United States Embassy on Wednesday night.

He has been charged with damaging the premises of an internationally protected person.

The Australian Federal Police bomb response unit attended the Yarralumla complex after ACT Policing, Fire and Rescue and Ambulance crews were called about 6pm.

Investigators said it was too early to tell what circumstances had led to the accident and five-hour police operation, but neither the vehicle or the embassy security gates were extensively damaged.