Mum and daughter moments from smash

The crash in Atkinson Rd, Titirangi, happened moments after a mother walked past with her young daughter. Photo / Jennifer Conlon

A mother has told how a driver smashed into a parked car during a police pursuit - just moments after she had been walking her 8-year-old daughter down the street.

Jennifer Conlon said she had just walked in the door with her daughter and two friends when they heard police sirens sounding from Atkinson Rd in Titirangi, just before 4pm yesterday.

Mrs Conlon , who lives on Atkinson Rd with her husband, Tony, and their two daughters, said when she went outside police were chasing a man from the car which had crashed into a parked four-wheel drive. She said the occupant was caught by police.

"It was a horrific crash ... It was a big 4-wheel-drive ... and he hit it with such speed ... and lifted it up on to the footpath and into the powerpole."

Mrs Conlon said the crash, which happened "about six doors down" from her home, was the second serious accident along Atkinson Rd in just two weeks.

"There is a speed camera on the road that's clocked people going 200km/h, and that's right between two primary schools - Kaurilands Primary school and Titirangi Primary school.

"Collectively that's 1400 children."

Mrs Conlon, whose youngest daughter will start at Kaurilands school next year, said despite there being a speed camera on the road, cars treated it as a raceway.

"It's far too dangerous, the footpaths are right on the road, there's no verge between the footpath and the road. There's a long straight piece which is just a race track."

Police said the driver of the car was caught shortly after the pursuit began. No one was injured.