Police interview witnesses after a 2002 Ford Explorer crashed through a concrete fence in Dunedin yesterday.
The female driver walked away unscathed after the crash.
Jess Wren, of Dunedin, said she was a passenger in a car travelling along Kenmure Rd towards Highgate about 1.20pm, when her mother commented on the way an oncoming SUV was being driven.
The vehicle, which appeared to be travelling at speed, failed to take a bend and crossed Kenmure Rd, crashing into the fence.
The SUV shattered a large part of the concrete fence, flattened a letterbox and toppled a mature tree, before coming to rest on its side in front of the house.
''It missed a car right in front of the house. It was pretty crazy.''
The woman in the SUV was ''freaking out'', yelling ''my baby, my baby, my baby'', Ms Wren said.
''We were real worried there was a child in there.''
But the woman was alone in the SUV. The woman took off her seatbelt and then made a call on her cellphone, Ms Wren said.
A St John spokeswoman said an ambulance attended but the woman was uninjured.
A policeman at the scene said nobody was inside the house where the SUV crashed.
Senior Sergeant Craig Dinnissen, of Dunedin, said it appeared the vehicle the woman was driving failed to negotiate a bend before crashing.
The police investigation into the crash was continuing, he said.
