Occupants shocked but no injuries after car crashed through Rosewater home

Residents have spoken of their shock after a ute smashed through a fence of a Rosewater home, but police won’t lay charges.

A mechanical fault is being blamed for a destructive crash caused by a car ploughing through a home in Rosewater.

The ute’s driver lost control at a roundabout before crashing into a home’s stone fence on McNicol Tce just before 12.30am Monday.

Resident of the property, Marianne Cope, said she and her husband, Frank, woke to a loud noise about 12.30am.

“I honestly thought the house over the road had blown up or something because there was just like a fog, a white haze everywhere,” Ms Cope said.

Ms Cope, 57, said her husband, 59, opened the front door and the driver of the vehicle was there and asked, “are you all right, mate?”

“We were still dazed as to what had happened, so we got dressed and went outside and then saw what the damage was and the haze that we saw just smelt like clutch.” Ms Cope said.

Ms Cope said the driver was negotiating the roundabout by their house and felt the clutch fail, so he jumped out of the car and the car went through their fence, gas meter and varandah post.

The car went across the neighbour’s boundary fence and ended up against a neighbour’s veranda.

The car which ploughed through the Rosewater fence and into the front yard. Picture: Marianne Cope

Frank and Marianne Cope of Rosewater survey the wreckage of their front yard after a ute lost control and ploughed through their fence. Picture Dean Martin

The crash happened just before 12.30am Monday. Picture: 7NEWS

The ute came to a stop next to another resident’s home. Picture: Marianne Cope

Ms Cope said the elderly neighbour was very shaken by the incident, and their house is quite damaged.

“We felt for the driver, he was clearly shaken, he was only a young fella … I do feel sorry for him because he tried to do the best he could to keep the car out of the houses … it could have been a whole lot worse.” Ms Cope said.

Police say there were no reported injuries from the driver, a local man, 21, or occupants of the home, and no charges were laid because the crash was caused by a mechanical fault.

It comes after a man cheated death last week after crashing into a truck and flipping his car on its roof and landing on a brick fence in Clapham.

The crash happened at the intersection of Springbank Rd and Quebec Ave about 10am Wednesday.

A Hope Valley man, 73, miraculously only suffered minor injuries.