A driver is lucky to be alive after his car ploughed into a home near New Norfolk.
Anne-Marie Cate, the owner of the Lyell Highway property near the speedway, said the car appeared to have been travelling at around 100km/h when it smashed into her home on Wednesday night.
“There’s a fair bit of damage to fencing,” she said.
“In the bedroom it knocked the stuff off the walls and moved the cabinet 5-10cm.”
Cate and her husband operate a tattoo studio out of the house and had planned to host an open day the day after the crash.
“[We] got driven into tonight. I will still be open for the Open Day tomorrow. We just have to do some cleaning up,” she told clients.
“We are all ok and may have the new decoration in the garden to my studio when you get here, so please enjoy the view.”
The car, which belongs to a 56-year-old man from Moonah, is understood to have failed to navigate a bend, before crashing through the home’s fence and coming to rest against a wall.
The driver of the vehicle was taken to the Royal Hobart Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
“The cause of the crash is still under investigation and no charges have been laid at this stage,” a Tasmania Police spokesperson told Pulse on Monday.
