A terrified mum thought her house had exploded when she woke after an Audi ploughed into her kitchen in the middle of the night.
The high-powered A4 soft-top smashed into the row of houses in the early hours as she lay in bed upstairs. Houses shook along the street when the car hurtled into the buildings at around 4am.
Dawn Jowett said she feared for her life thinking there had been a gas explosion which ripped through her house.
The 54-year-old raced downstairs in her pyjamas and found that an Audi A4 had driven through the wall of her kitchen in Stockport, the Manchester Evening News reports.
Water gushed from the damaged pipes as Dawn clambered over rubble and debris to escape through the hole in the wall.
But the ordeal could have been worse as her 15-year-old son’s bedroom is located directly upstairs from the kitchen but fortunately he was staying with a friend.
Dawn, who had returned home from a family party, said it was lucky her brother had not come back too as they would have been sitting in the kitchen having a cup of tea.
Witnesses who rushed over to help Dawn described seeing a bleeding man and another person running from the wreckage of the white Audi 2-litre cabriolet at around 4.20am.
The crash shook the row of terraced houses so hard that the neighbour’s cupboard doors flew open.
Police are now hunting the driver of the car and a bloodied man who was seen walking from the scene.
Astonishing pictures show the collision happened directly below her autistic son Kieran’s bedroom.
