UPDATE with PHOTOS: Car Rams Ardmore House; Driver and Another Flee

( interview about this story, with two residents of the house and footage of the effort to remove the vehicle.)

Police and fire crews were on the scene at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday in Ardmore, where a vehicle rammed into the front room of a home on the 100 block of Holland Avenue, near Haverford College.

Fearing possible damage to gas lines, PECO was summoned to the scene for a struck gas meter, as fire crews from the stretched hoseline into position.

But no gas leak was detected, Chief Tom Hayden told Patch, and fire crews were able to safely leave the scene by 7 p.m.

"Anytime you have a car on a gas meter, it's heightened concern," Hayden said. "There's a gas line underneath it, but it's not ruptured."

Still, Hayden had to have plenty of firefighters at the ready for when the tow truck lifted the vehicle off the meter. Firehoses were manned and primed for the moment when the car was freed from where it lay lodged inside the house.

No one was hurt among the three occupants of the home: Robin Dove-Franklin, her daughter Coryn Dove, 17, and her husband, Dominic Franklin. 

Dominic Franklin was working in the front room, a converted porch, when the incident happened. His stepdaughter was directly behind him, watching TV on a couch, while his wife was upstairs at the time. 

A short but steep front lawn probably saved Franklin and Coryn Dove from serious harm. 

"I thought it was a normal accident outside the house, but then I saw something coming through, and that's when I started running," said the senior. "That's when I jumped up and started running to the back of the house."

As for her startled stepfather, "He had to jump up and move, otherwise he would have been crushed," she added. 

Because the front room was able to be sealed off, the family was able to stay in the home, they said. 

Meanwhile, were looking for the two occupants of the vehicle (not three as initially reported from wire accounts). The pair had "bailed out" of the car, though it is not yet clear if they did so before striking the house. 

Police are searching for two males who ran from the car. One is said to be wearing a grey hoodie. No other description is yet available.

"They were probably drunk or high, or something," said Coryn Dove, when asked why she thought they ran upon seeing her family emerge from the home. 

Lower Merion alerted the Haverford Township Police Department and Haverford College security regarding the two occupants of the vehicle, who were still believed to be at large as of 8 p.m. Saturday.

Patch will update this story when details become available from Lower Merion Police.