Driver flees after car flips and catches fire in Launceston suburb of Newnham

POLICE are keen to speak to the driver of a car which crashed through the fence of a Launceston home and then caught fire.

Tasmania Fire Service officers examining a car which caught fire after ploughing through a fence in the Launceston suburb of Newnham early today. Picture: BRUCE MOUNSTER

POLICE are keen to speak to the driver of a car which crashed through the fence of a Launceston home and then caught fire.

Officers were called to the scene of the crash on George Town Rd, Newnham, about 4.30am today.

The car landed on its roof and subsequently caught fire, with the driver fleeing the scene.

No one in the house was injured, with Tasmania Police forensics officers set to examine the property today.

It follows a similar incident last week when a stolen ute was set alight at Glenorchy and rolled 80m into the front of a Brent St house after its brakes melted.

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Damage to the Glenorchy house was estimated to be at least $20,000, with the ute destroyed by the fire.

The charred shell of a ute which was set alight before rolling into this house at Glenorchy last week.

Originally published as Driver flees after car flips and catches fire in Launceston suburb of Newnham