A PAKENHAM mum is reeling after an out-of-control car hit her home, ploughing into her daughter’s bedroom.

The vehicle, said by police to be driven by an unlicensed teenager who’d been drinking, burst into the Naples Way house about 12.40 am on Saturday, 20 May.

Margaret Maina said her 11-year-old daughter Michelle was in bed asleep when the Holden Commodore smashed into her room, sending bricks and plaster dust flying.

Mrs Maina thanked God her daughter was safe but has been left to question how such a thing could have happened.

She said her family was still getting over their ordeal.

“We were all asleep in bed,” she said.

“Suddenly I woke up when I heard a loud bang and the house shook and I could hear the sound of a car engine running.

“I checked out front and there was nothing so at first I thought I had been dreaming.

“But the noise was too loud and then I saw the car’s lights and there was smoke.

“I yelled out for my son Sammy to call the police but at that stage I didn’t even think it had hit our house, I thought it might have been next door.

“Then I went to go into Michelle’s bedroom and I saw the damage and she was not in her bed.

“I just started screaming.”

Fortunately, Mrs Maina’s daughter was not injured. She had jumped out of bed and run into another room when the car smashed into her bedroom wall.

Police and State Emergency Service crews attended the crash which shocked residents in the usually quiet residential street.

The circumstances surrounding the crash remain under investigation.

Cardinia TMU Sergeant Peter Garton said it appeared a car containing four people had been driving along The Avenue when the 1991 sedan suddenly veered off the road, smashing through a wooden fence and into the house.

The occupants of the car were not injured and were interviewed by police at the scene.

Sgt Garton said the driver was a 16-year-old Pakenham youth who later recorded a blood alcohol content of 0.091 per cent.

Police said the passengers included the car’s owner, a woman in her early 30s, and two other local youths, aged 16 and 19.

Having moved to Pakenham from Kenya in 2004, Mrs Maina said the incident had left her and her children struggling to return to their normal routine.

She was not sure whether they would stay in the house as a result.

“I haven’t been able to work this week and my daughter doesn’t want to go back into her bedroom,” she said.

“We couldn’t sleep again that night because we were so scared and I still feel traumatised.

“We were very comfortable in this house before, but now I don’t know.”