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Loganlea’s Danielle Newby was watching television in her living room, her dog by her side, when her entire house shook.
A car had crashed through her neighbour’s front fence, destroying the front patio, and into her own home, just metres away from where she sat at about 2.25am on 2 November.
Ms Newby compared the impact to that of an earthquake.
Her first reaction? To protect her four-legged companion.
“The whole house shook so hard,” she told 7News.
“I was on the couch watching TV and then boom, it just crashed through and I dived on the dog,” she told News Corp.
She said she hadn’t been able to sleep since.
Ms Newby’s neighbour, Betty Chin Bik Hoih, whose home was the first hit by the car, lost her front patio due to the crash.
The wall to her bathroom was also cracked.
She told media she was sleeping at the time when was suddenly woken by a “really loud noise”.
“I thought it must be the lightling striking,” she told 7News.
“We’re glad it did not hit the bedroom… If it had not hit [the patio] and gone directly [to the bedroom] it would have been a different story.”
Following the crash, a man in the car was hospitalised with a head injury in a stable condition, according to paramedics.
In footage taken by witnesses at the scene shortly afterwards, music can be heard playing loudly from the car, a white Nissan X-Trail, that is partially covered by the collapsed patio roof.
The car’s driver, a man in his 20s, was trapped in the vehicle and needed to be freed.
