Three people are in hospital after a vehicle crashed into a house in Brampton early Wednesday morning.

The incident occurred on Creditview Road, near Williams Parkway, shortly before 1:30 a.m.

Reports from the scene suggest that a Jeep Cherokee was travelling at a high rate of speed when it went through a fence, hit a tree, and ultimately came to rest on the front lawn of a home in the area.

Harman Gill said he was sitting in his car when he saw the Jeep race past him and go airborne.

“Right then I told my buddy to call 911 and I rushed here and that’s when I saw three young men stuck in the car. They were devastated.”

Gill said he tried to squeeze the occupants of the vehicle out one by one.

“I took the first guy out, but there was no room for the guy to come out. The sunroof was open a little bit. The second guy barely made it out and as I was taking the third guy out, he was pretty much stuck in his (seat belt).”

“That’s when the car caught on fire. The fire came inside the car and I could see the (man’s) leg was on fire.”

A second man came to help Gill break the vehicle’s sunroof and remove the third man from the car as the flames spread to the porch of the home the car had slammed into minutes earlier.

“I told the house owners to come out, but they panicked, who wants to wake up at 2 a.m. at night, they probably thought I was robbing their house or something.”

Gill said the occupants of the home, including a dog, eventually made it out of the home.

He suffered some cuts to his left hand.

Another neighbour, Deandre Stephenson, told CP24 that he heard a loud bang following the crash and went outside to see what happened.

“I was up playing video games and I heard a like ruckus outside. I thought a car crash happened… I saw the car on its side in flames. I heard people screaming,” he said.

“I rushed over there (and) saw that there were people inside (the vehicle). I see two guys trying to break the sunroof. One guy broke the sunroof and pulled out two guys, put them over to the sidewalk and told them to sit there and wait for the ambulance,” Stephenson said.

He said when he saw there was one more person trapped in the vehicle, he rushed over to help.

“They were sticking out their arm so I grabbed their arm and slowly pulled them (out)," Stephenson added.

Two male occupants of the vehicle were taken to a trauma centre in serious condition and a third male was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Gill said one occupant was an adult male and the other two appeared to be under 18.

“It is pretty wild that we haven’t had any fatalities this morning based on this incident,” Const. Harinder Sohi told CP24 at the scene.

“Our Major Collision Bureau is on scene but clearly from the debris field and how far this Jeep Cherokee travelled, speed was a definite factor.”

The 28-year-old driver of the vehicle, who was one of the two people sent to a trauma centre following the crash, has also been arrested for impaired driving, Sohi said.