The mother said when they found the car later this morning, they noticed the handbrake was on.
“I think that was our luck because otherwise our house could have been damaged more significantly,” she said.
The home’s exterior bricks were damaged in the crash.
“Where the car hit the house, that was the room where my younger child [14] was sleeping.
“I don’t want to think of what could have happened if that handbrake was not up.”
The mother said the incident was deeply unsettling and not something you would expect, “even in your worst nightmare”.
‘A Halloween surprise’
The family were asleep and blissfully unaware of the crash.
“We did not notice anything. I mean, we heard something, some kind of noise, but we thought ‘oh maybe the cats did something’,” the mother said.
It was only when she and her husband left the house to go shopping that they made the startling discovery.
“We noticed a car … I thought well, maybe that’s a Halloween surprise.”
The home of a Henderson family of four was hit by a driverless car overnight.
Police confirmed they received a call about 10am reporting that a vehicle had hit the side of a house in Henderson.
The registered owner of the wrecked car was contacted and told police he had earlier reported the vehicle stolen.
A police spokesperson said police would make further inquiries into what happened.
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