A trip to the kitchen most likely saved the life of a Papamoa man after an out-of-control car smashed through one side of his house and out the other.
Emergency services were astonished that no one was hurt in the dramatic crash on Gravatt Rd last night.
A young woman, believed to be in her 20s, is expected to appear in Tauranga District Court today on charges of dangerous driving and driving under the influence of alcohol.
The woman was driving down Gravatt Rd near Evans Rd about 6.45pm when the car left the road, clipped the side of one house before ploughing through the sliding doors of another house and out the other side.
Dean Hickmott had been at his computer when the car hit his house before careening through his neighbour's brick home. "I didn't see it but I heard this incredibly loud bang, crunch," he said.