Mother thankful baby unhurt after car smashes into house

A woman whose house was smashed by a suspected stolen vehicle is thankful her baby daughter wasn't hurt.

A dark-coloured Holden Commodore hit a wooden fence, a bush and then came to rest against the living room of Angela McLeod's west Auckland house about 9.30 last night.

She was in the bath at the time and heard a noise that sounded like an earthquake.

"Me and my son and my baby daughter were at home and I was actually in the bathroom and my son came screaming inside into the bathroom telling me they'd been a car crash," Ms McLeod told NZME.

"I ran outside to see what had happened and the car crash was at my step, just sitting there.

"It was like an earthquake. Everything in the house has been smashed and fallen down and broken."

Ms McLeod said she had lost ornaments and items carrying sentimental value "because some idiot stole and car and was trying to get away".

She was glad the driver was alive, but said she was upset at what the driver did to her house and possessions.

Ms McLeod's 7-month-old daughter was asleep at the time and could have been at risk if the car had taken a different track.

"[The driver's] a lucky man. He's really lucky. Whatever happens he could have actually killed someone. He could have killed a baby."

Before smashing into the house, the car hit a resident's parked car, a Toyota station wagon.

Police have said nobody was injured in the crash and it was believed the car was being pursued by officers at the time.