A car has left the road at such speed it ploughed through three properties, become airborne and collided with the first floor deck of a house in Auckland.
A car has left the road at such speed it ploughed through three properties, become airborne and hit the first floor deck of a house in Auckland.
The black two-door hatchback left Lynn Rd, Glenfield and careened through three properties on the street about 2.30pm.
Photo / Daniel Hines
The car's male driver andfemale passenger were able to exit the vehicle unaided, and were taken to North Shore Hospital with moderate injuries.
One resident described hearing the car coming, before seeing it fly past him.
"I heard it coming up the hill and it was just increasing in speed and noise," he said.
"I looked up so I could actually identify the car as it was it went past, and it was going past upside down through the rockery.
"Rocks and letterboxes and stuff everywhere and, 'Bang!' Then it stopped."
"[There was] just a mess everywhere. I saw it airborne, it had taken out three letterboxes, all the rocks in the garden - a shower of dirt. Lucky there was no kids on the pavement."
Another resident, Nick Russell, said the crash shook his house.
"It was so loud [and] definitely going very, very fast," he said.
"The second we heard the engine cut out, we heard a few rumbles and then we looked over and saw the car flying through the air just by the house."
He ran down the driveway and saw the crashed vehicle and its occupants.
"The car was just sitting there and people were crawling out, all hell was breaking loose."
Photo / Daniel Hines
Before it crashed, the car hit the deck on the top level of Jack O'Rourke's two-storied house and landed in his vegetable patch.
"We were just inside getting ready, we had some people coming for lunch, and we heard this noise I thought it was timber, like a whole stack of timber coming down.
"The house shook. You can see where it has hit the top of the decking."
Police Northern Communications Shift Inspector Kerry Watson said there was a possibility charges would be laid, but it was to early to say what caused the crash.
