On Saturday, Judith Russell, 87, was startled awake by her home rattling.
"My first thought was ‘Oh my gosh. What if someone has come to murder me?’
"It sounded like people rattling on the door, you know, determined to break in," she said.
Instead, a car had collided with the concrete wall in front of her house.
Sergeant Matt Lee, of Dunedin, said a 28-year-old woman allegedly high on MDMA attempted to swerve around a vehicle in Highgate, but in doing so crashed into another vehicle on the other side of the road.
When police arrived, she failed a compulsory impairment test, during which she admitted to officers she had recently taken MDMA.
A blood specimen was taken from the woman and the results were pending, Sgt Lee said.
The concrete wall in Mrs Russell’s garden was also damaged in the crash.
Mrs Russell said the most important thing was that everyone walked away all right.
