A woman in her 70s has miraculously escaped without injury after a car slammed into her home in Perth last night.
CCTV footage captured the car speeding toward the property about 9pm (local time) in the High Wycombe suburb around 20km east of Perth's CBD.
Video taken by a bystander showed the smashed silver Holden Commodore parked partially inside the destroyed home, after the person said it hit a curb and became airborne, before it clipped the roof of the home, flipped, and crashed down.
Neighbours told 9News they rushed to help the occupant, a woman in her 70s, after hearing the chaos.
"Just watching TV, and then we just heard a really loud bang," said one neighbour.
She said it was "confronting" to see the house, and garden, completely smashed by the vehicle.
Restorabuild worker Aaron Lucas said crews worked to secure the area after the patio roof was brought down, gutters ripped off and plants were uprooted.
"We've had to obviously make it watertight and waterproof for everyone until obviously the insurance companies come in to sort everything out," he told 9News.
Police tracked down the driver, a 22-year-old woman who allegedly fled the scene and has since been charged with dangerous driving and failing to give details to police.
The woman who lives there said she would be able to stay with family in the meantime.
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