A three-year-old Canberra boy has narrowly escaped injury after an out-of-control car ploughed into his bedroom.
Jaxson Howe was walking up the hallway of his home in the Canberra suburb of Chisolm after retrieving a toy from his bedroom when the white Jeep Grand Cherokee crashed through the window.
"It scared the absolute living daylights out of him," Jaxson's mother, Tahlia Howe, said.
"He screamed. He was shocked and was shaking for a good half an hour afterwards."
The family had been watching a police chase show on the television in their loungeroom when the incident happened on Saturday night.
What they first thought was the sound of car tyres screeching on the show, was actually the noise of a car burning rubber outside just before the impact.
"As I was running out the front the car was reversing out of the house and took off down the street," Ms Howe said.
Ms Howe said she was shocked the driver did not stop.
She also believed the occupants of the car would have been injured by the impact.
The car was abandoned a few streets away and police suspect the three people that were in the car at the time of the crash fled on foot.
Three-year-old's cot covered in glass
The crash happened about 6:30pm, just an hour before Jaxson's usual bedtime.
The impact shattered glass across the room and pushed in the window frame and walls.
Ms Howe said she felt sick thinking about what could have happened if Jaxson had been asleep.
"The amount of chunks of glass in his cot ... I don't even want to think about what could have happened if he got hit with a chunk of glass," she said.
On top of the shock, the family has been left thousands-of-dollars out of pocket.
"Everything in my son's room had to be thrown in the bin," Ms Howe said.
The out-of-control car also hit one of the family's cars parked in front of the house, along with a trailer.
"It was my eight-year-old's car for when he gets his license," Ms Howe said.
"He works on the car all the time with his dad.
"He's very upset about that. We're going to have to discard it because the chassis has been snapped off."
ACT Policing is investigating the incident and is calling on witnesses to contact Crimes Stoppers.
