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Two young boys escaped without injury when a speeding car failed to take a bend and ploughed into their bedroom in Otaki overnight.
The children, aged nine and 10, were asleep in the house on the corner of Waerenga Rd and Aotaki St when the Subaru with three occupants in it missed the bend and skidded for 45 metres towards the property.
The car mounted the gutter and crashed through a retaining wall, scattering concrete blocks 10 metres down the driveway and sending pieces of concrete through windows across the front of the house, said Sergeant John May.
The car continued across the front lawn of the property and ploughed into the bedroom where the boys were sleeping.
"The impact was such that the wall of the house and furniture was disintegrated and sent flying around the small room," he said.
The car stopped about half a metre from the feet of one of the boys.
Neither of the boys was injured but they were, along with their parents, very shaken, Mr May said.
The 24-year-old driver of the car was taken to Palmerston North Hospital. The extent of his injuries is not known. The back seat passenger was not hurt.
The front seat passenger suffered a minor head injury and was "extremely lucky" not to have been impaled by the wooden windowsill that pierced the car's windscreen, Mr May said.
Apart from the apparent speed involved in the crash, police also believe alcohol may have been a factor.
- NZPA
