Car rolls 400m into Lake Wakatipu near Queenstown

Queenstown residents may have had to do a double-take after a car rolled 400 metres from a house into Lake Wakatipu.

Emergency services were called after the car was seen rolling near Lake Avenue at about 10am.

A Fire and Emergency NZ spokeswoman says nobody was in the vehicle at the time.

She says it is unclear whether the handbrake was left off or what has happened.

A police spokesperson said they spoke to the owner and the vehicle was towed.

The car after it rolled into Lake Wakatipu. Photo / James Allan

A witness at the scene said the car rolled across a road, a footpath and two walkways before falling about 400m down a vertical cliff. Eventually endeing up in the lake.