Runaway car ruins peaceful morning

Connie Bryers was in the shower when the car crashed into the house where she and David Casey live with their daughters. Photo / Christine Cornege

A car's early morning plough through a wooden fence and subsequent crash into a Hamilton home had a resident thinking "something must have blown over" outside.

Parents David Casey, 34, and Connie Bryers, 39, were shocked to find a car had smashed into the garage of their Radiata St home in Fairview Downs about 8.30 yesterday morning.

At the time, Ms Bryers was home alone and in the shower.

"She heard a large bang," Mr Casey said. "She didn't think much of it - she thought something must have blown over outside and carried on showering."

By the time she had finished, emergency service staff were on her front lawn.

"They've [the car] jumped the kerb, gone across the neighbour's front lawn, through the fence and into the corner of our house," Mr Casey said.

Those in the car had also attempted to drive off, he said.

"According to the neighbours, [it looked like] they had an argument about what they were going to do and some witnesses have said they were possibly walking up and down the street maybe in a bit of a panic."

He said the road was a dead-end street and nothing like this had happened in the four years the couple had lived there with their two young daughters.

Immediate repairs to the house were carried out yesterday. Mr Casey said further assessment around other work required was under way.