The car involved is towed away after the crash. Photo/Supplied
Neighbours of a suburban Napier street woke to the sound of crunching metal and brick as a man smashed his car into his own living room.
Police and emergency services responded to the house on Bedford Rd, near the corner with Latham St, about 11.20pm on Sunday after the man's
new Ford Falcon ute ploughed through the lounge of his home.
"I was upstairs and I heard him [driving] down the road, the next thing I heard was this ripping and tearing," said one neighbour. "Then I heard this thump and crack before the really loud sound of metal on brick.
"He narrowly missed the parked cars before he [went] across the lawn and fence and smashed right into the lounge. There was water spraying out everywhere, he had obviously hit a pipe or something as well."
Acting Senior Sergeant Clint Adamson said the man, by his own admission, was travelling at 120km/h in a 50km/h zone towards the roads intersection with Latham St.
