The occupants of the car that crashed were lucky to be alive, a resident says. Photo / Supplied
A west Auckland resident has described the "bloody awful" sound of a stolen car fleeing police crashing on her front lawn.
Police tried to stop the driver of a stolen car in the west Auckland suburb of Henderson this morning, after they received a report of it driving dangerously at Tango Place.
It fled police and crashed into a power pole before flipping across a residential lawn on Pomaria Rd.
Dramatic images show the trail of wreckage the car left behind, with concrete crumpled and a school sign on the ground.