A quick spin ended in disaster for two men when their car flew through the top of a wooden fence, over bushes and a clothesline and through the back wall of a Te Puna house.
The occupants of the Hakao Rd house were home about 6pm on Saturday when a car came crashing through the back wall of their garage, destroyed a washing machine, scraped along the side of another car parked in the garage and ripped off the sectional metal door as it shot out the front where it came to rest in the driveway.
"We're just thankful the guys weren't killed. Normally my little black car is in there. I'd taken it out to wash it," the occupant of the house told the Bay of Plenty Times yesterday.
Tauranga police Senior Constable Chris Hills said two men in their 20s were in the turbo-charged Mitsubishi Lancer at the time of the crash but escaped unscathed with one suffering a small cut to the head.
"Two people, quite unfamiliar with the road, were test driving a car and unfortunately the road ends and unfortunately their journey didn't. They've crested a small crest in the road. They've then gone slightly across the end of the road and gone up a small earth bank. They've then gone airborne through the top of a wooden fence and cleared a few bushes and trees and a clothes line before going through the back corner of a house."