Vehicle smashes into home

CORNER: The house damage after the car was eased away.

A woman escaped unharmed after a collision with another car sent her vehicle careening into the side of a Featherston home yesterday.

Wairarapa police Senior Constable Peter Cunningham said the woman had been travelling west along Revans St in her 4x4 vehicle when she was "clipped" in a collision with a car at the intersection with Revans and Daniell Sts about 12.45pm yesterday.

The woman was shaken but unharmed and the other driver, a young man, had been likewise unharmed and "was very remorseful", rushing to the woman's side to check her well-being, Mr Cunningham said.

Paul Gorrie, the owner of the home which was struck during the incident, said he had been mowing his lawns when he heard a loud noise that he took to be a truck.

He was startled to find the vehicle had torn through a border garden of agapanthus and punched a hole in the corner of his home.

The impact had also thrown a window out of plumb, cracked the corresponding interior wall and knocked over a bedside cabinet.

"It went quiet for a while after the bang, so I went to that side of the house and saw a young guy running over and a car sitting in the side of my house," he said.

"She wasn't injured and a woman from the kindergarten was helping her out."

Mr Gorrie said he was planning to move out of the home today in a shift to the Hutt area, and had "had a bad run" after burglars this week stole paint and outdoor equipment.

Mr Cunningham said the male driver was likely to face charges of careless driving or failing to give way, depending on a police investigation.