A family including two school-aged children are lucky to be alive after their car overturned in a horror crash.

The family’s car flipped on its side and into a pole when it was allegedly hit by a stolen ute.

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The family was driving home from a soccer game when the crash happened on the corner of Chandler St and Douglas St in Garbutt, Townsville, in far north Queensland, about 6.13pm on Monday.

Nearby residents rushed to free the family — a mother and father, their two primary school-aged girls, and a grandmother — from the wreckage.

No one inside the family car was badly hurt, with paramedics taking all five family members to Townsville University Hospital in stable conditions.

“We transported all the patients that were in the vehicles up to hospital,” Queensland Ambulance Service officer Wayne Paxton told 7NEWS.

“Nothing serious but very lucky.”

Witnesses to the accident said the family were lucky to have walked away without serious harm.

“Those kids were, like, ripped out of their seatbelts and, luckily, not one of them had a scratch on them,” witness Todd Chancellor said.

Other witnesses said the occupants of the ute — who appeared to be young — were also uninjured.

“Four or five kids just scrambled out of the car, just a lot of shock and just devastated,” witness Mitchell Deller said.

Young bystander Georgia Tomkies offered her teddy to one of the girls in the crash.

“I thought she was scared,” Georgia said.

The generous girl’s mother Brooke Tomkies praised her daughter for the kind act. “She’s four and her name’s Daisy, and I have a four-year-old, so my daughter said, ‘may we please go take her a teddy?’ And I said that’d be lovely,” she said.

Brooke was among a group of locals who detained one person from the ute until police arrived however several others from that vehicle reportedly ran off.

Police are investigating and said charges are expected to be laid.