Residents of a street in Taita, Lower Hutt were given an early wake-up call this morning when a vehicle smashed through the fence of one of their properties.
Resident Sam Telfer said they were woken to a bang when the car hurtled through their fence, but by the time she and her partner got outside the occupants had already fled.
Luckily they had a security camera installed at the front of their house.
"As soon as we saw it we knew we would have caught the whole thing on camera," she said.