A day after a man was killed in a car that smashed into a palm tree in a yard north of Brisbane, cars have crashed into houses in two more incidents overnight.
Police have charged a 48-year-old man with dangerous drink driving after his ute crashed into a house at Redbank Plains, west of Brisbane, in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Neither the driver nor the female resident of the house were injured during the incident.
Police said the Laurel Street home was significantly damaged when the ute ploughed into it just after 1:00am.
Property owner Robert Heath said he was called by his tenant, a young woman.
"She said, 'oh a car's just run through my house and that and I thought I was dead'," Mr Heath said.
"You can see the results … it's quite devastating.
"It's lucky she wasn't killed — if it had been another eight feet that way, she wouldn't be here."
He said his tenant had just gone to bed, but could easily have been sitting in the lounge room, which was wiped out by the ute.
"If she was sitting there watching TV, she wouldn't be here."
The woman has gone to stay with her mother because the house is now unliveable.
In a separate incident, a car crashed into a house at Benowa on the Gold Coast at 8:30pm on Saturday — again nobody was injured.
But on Friday night, a 23-year-old man died and three other people were critically injured when a car crashed into a tree north of Brisbane.
He was a passenger in the car.
The driver lost control on Samsonvale Road at Bray Park at 11:30pm and crashed through the front yard of a house into a palm tree.
Two men and a woman, aged between 19 and 22, remained in hospital with critical injuries on Sunday morning.
Speaking at the scene of the crash, Senior Sergeant Jeff Lansdown said police found the man dead when they arrived at the scene.
"At this point in time it certainly would indicate that speed was a contributing factor to the crash," he said.
"Preliminary investigations indicate that the vehicle rounded the bend and it would appear the vehicle's lost control and mounted the footpath, it's then collided through a fence and come to rest in the front yard of one of the houses."
