Woman dead after car ploughs through St Marys home
A woman has been killed and a mother who police allege tried to flee the scene with her baby has been arrested after a car ploughed into a Sydney home.
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A woman was killed after a car crashed into a home in Sydney’s west, with a woman seen allegedly running from the crash with a baby in tow.
Just after 5.20am on Saturday morning a car ploughed through the front of a home on Monfarville St in St Marys, killing the 62-year-old woman inside.
There were three people at home at the time of the crash who were uninjured.
A large hole where the car had ploughed through was left at the front of the home, while debris from the vehicle had launched into a nearby tree.
Photographs from the scene show the car badly crumpled in the backyard, suggesting the vehicle ploughed through the entire house.
The driver of the car, a 29-year-old woman, pulled a baby out of the backseat and attempted to flee before she was arrested by police.
She was taken to Nepean Hospital for mandatory testing. Both the woman and her baby were uninjured.
Neighbours say they woke to a huge bang around 5.30am this morning.
Monfarville Street resident Michael said the noise sounded like “steel plates crashing together”.
“You’ve never heard anything like it,” he said.
“It was deafening.”
Another neighbour claimed the Jeep Grand Cherokee flew through the front of the home owned by Jim Pemble and his partner Robyn Figg.
The car become air borne and collected a gate in the front yard of the home before it crashed into the front bedroom of a home.
Ms Figg, aged 62 was sleeping inside the front room and was tragically killed. Mr Pemble was out walking their dog, while his parents were asleep in the granny flat at the back of the property.
The car tore through the entire home, landing in the backyard in a mangled mess.
Neighbours said Ms Figg and her little dog were very well known in the area.
“She would always sit on her porch and wave as we drove by,” one neighbour said.
“It’s close knit here, it’s really sad.”
Ms Figg’s home was completely destroyed during the freak crash, and her family searched the rubble inside on Saturday afternoon.
It took emergency services hours to extricate the vehicle from the home, with Blacktown Fire Station Officer Samuel Parkhouse saying he’d never seen a car that had “drifted all the way through” a house before.
Fire and Rescue had to use specialised equipment to maintain the structural integrity of the house before removing the vehicle.
“We use that equipment to shore up the structure to maintain its structural integrity to make it safe for ongoing investigations,” officer Parkhouse said.
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