Vic police car crashes into house

Two occupants escaped injury, but two police officers received minor injuries when their patrol car crashed into a house in Melbourne's west.

The car veered off the road on a corner and struck the front of the Hoppers Crossing house about 8pm on Sunday as the officers responded to an emergency call of a fire at a property, police said.

The officers were taken to hospital with minor injuries while the two men inside the house were not injured. The small fire was contained to the garage and was extinguished.