A Jaguar smashed into the front of a house in Carshalton Beeches rocking neighbouring homes and leaving the family who lived there in shock.
The enormous bang was heard throughout the area after the sports car launched up the drive and through the front of the Blakehall Road home, leaving smashed glass and broken wood littered around the crash.
The family, who asked not to be named, were inside the home with their two-year-old daughter when they heard what they described as "the loudest thing" ever.
The mother said: "We were in the back of the house.
"My husband was with our two-year-old in the kitchen.
"I just heard this massive noise and came out to the living room and there was a car in the middle of the living room.
"The fire brigade have done what they can, as has everybody and now we are just waiting for a structural engineer to arrive and assess the building.
"We can't go in the house until its judged to be safe.
"The neighbours have been great, making us tea."
The family have been told they can not go back into the house and the car can not be removed until the building has been deemed structurally sound.
Speaking from the scene watch manager Graeme Hunter said that in total 15 fire fighters, a pump from Wallington Fire Station, and two fire rescue vehicles were dispatched.
London Ambulance Service got the driver out of the car.
The father said: "It was just a very loud crash.
"It was the loudest thing I've ever heard.
"My first reaction was to get to the front window.
"I had no idea what it was. I couldn't process it.
"It was the sound of broken glass but it was so loud."
The London Ambulance Service said they were called out 8.10am, on Thursday, March 12, to Blakehall Road to reports of a road traffic collision where they treated a man in his 50's.
Sutton Police arrived to find the Jaguar embedded into the front of a house.
Witness, Adbul Basitnasir, was driving along Blakehall Road.
He said: "One of the neighbours, who lives about four doors down, came out. She said all the houses shook when it happened.
"There are three fire engines two ambulances and police here and they have closed the road. The angle at which the driver has hit the house, he must have missed a BMW parked on the drive way by inches."
No arrests have been made and nobody was seriously injured.
One man was seen assisting officers with their enquiries.
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