LUCY CRAYMER
When young mum Morwenna Herewini heard the bang of a car crashing through her fence yesterday her first fear was it had ploughed into the room where her sister Christine was sleeping.
Two Murdoch Road West householders were woken just after 2am when a black car "flew" through the
front fence, crashed through two side fences before hitting the corner of a house, then reversed, hit a tree, and headed back on to the street and took off, said Morwenna's mother Donna Herewini.
It left the wooden fence looking like a pile of kindling, the underside of the house next door exposed and a wing mirror lying abandoned on the lawn.
Morwenna said she had been awake feeding six-month-old Ashton when the accident occurred.
"I heard her (the woman driver) screeching over the (railway) tracks. I said to Jason, 'listen to those hoons' and then I heard the bang and I came flying out here (into the living room) because I thought it had hit the house," she said.
Morwenna said the three occupants of the car were just lucky a truck had not been coming along Railway Road because they had not stopped at the intersection.
When she heard the bang Donna thought it was just another accident on Railway Road but then realised it came from her front garden.
She went out to investigate but the driver seemed a little "looney" so she got everyone back inside the house and called the police.
Christine, who had been sleeping in the lounge at the front of the house, moved back to her bedroom because she was worried about what could have happened, Donna said. Next door, Rose Moeke said she had heard "a bang and thump" as the car demolished her fence.
"The crash gave me one hell of a fright," she said. Ms Moeke was upset that the driver had continued to reverse several times on her front lawn ripping up the grass and leaving deep skid marks.
"I hope she gets what she deserves," said Ms Moeke. Senior Sergeant Mike O'Leary said an 18-year-old woman had been arrested after she abandoned the car on a nearby street and was tracked by police dogs.
He said she had a breath-alcohol reading of close to 600mcg.
