A driver and occupant were injured Friday night when their vehicle jumped up onto a sidewalk in Tamaqua and crashed into a house.

Emergency responders were dispatched at 6:24 p.m. for a report of a car into a house with entrapment on Hunter Street.

According to those at the scene, a silver GMC Envoy XL SUV with a New Jersey license plate was traveling eastbound on Penn Street, failed to stop at one or two stop signs, before crossing Hunter Street, jumping the sidewalk and crashing into a house at 135 Hunter St.

One occupant, a female, was taken to St. Luke's Hospital, Miners Campus, Coaldale, while the other, also a female, was airlifted to a Lehigh Valley trauma center by PennSTAR Air Medical, according to Harry Hontz, paramedic. Hontz said he'd just finished a shift at Penn Mahoning Ambulance and was driving home when the crash happened.

Residents said the sound of the impact startled those in the neighborhood.

"My wife heard a bang," said Hunter Street resident Chris Heffelfinger, who lives directly across the street from the house that was struck.

Young children sitting on the front of a house near the corner of Bowe and Penn Street said they saw what happened, and their mother heard the collision just as she was stepping out of the front door.

"My son and my daughter were waiting for me," said Colleen Stauffer. "We were getting ready to go to dinner with my boyfriend, Ed Wagner, he's a firefighter."

Stauffer said Wagner responded to the scene immediately.

The children, Logan Zimmerman, 8, and Rylea Zimmerman, 5, watched from a safe distance as police and rescuers arrived and freed the occupants.

Those at the scene said the car, traveling on a downgrade, appeared to pass through two stop signs without stopping. One sign is at the corner of Penn and Bowe streets, the other at Penn and Hunter.

The car, heavily damaged, was removed by Hope's Collision and Towing, Tamaqua.

The house sustained damage to the front porch and roof supports. It is owned by Charles and Barbara Parrish, according to records of the courthouse's Schuylkill Parcel Locator.

"It's a good thing the people weren't sitting there on the front porch," said Stauffer. "There are people sitting there a lot."

Another at the scene said those involved in the crash recently moved into the Penn Street neighborhood.

Tamaqua police are investigating and no other details were available.