A potentially tragic crash was narrowly avoided in the second car-smashing-into-a-family-home incident in the same week.

The Sutton Guardian last week reported a black Jaguar had smashed into a house in Carshalton Beeches where a husband and wife lived with their two-year-old daughter on Thursday, March 12.

Amazingly another car careered into a home on London Road, Wallington two days earlier at 11.20am having ricocheted off a parked car.

Susan John, 56, was in her kitchen unpacking bags from her car having just returned from the shops.

As she was returning to the vehicle she heard the "incredible noise".

Mrs John, whose husband Derek, 60, was at work at the time, said: "I was just in disbelief, when I walked outside and saw what had happened it was just surreal.

"My car had been parked outside the house.

"I came out. My car was missing."

The small hatchback had been shunted 20 metres along the road by a Mitsubishi 4x4, which had ploughed on through a garden wall and into a neighbouring garden.

She added: "If it had been 10 seconds later or 10 seconds sooner it could have been very close.

"Just thinking about that is very scary."

Since the smash the couple have had the debris cleared from their destroyed front wall and had the broken brick work taken away.

The driver, a 75-year-old man, was remarkably also unharmed by the crash.

She added: "The wall will have to be rebuilt and my car's a write off, shame as it was a good little runner.

"We've had to go through the insurers."

A spokesman for Sutton police said the driver has been reported for driving without due care and may be summonsed to court.