This bizarre incident happened on Easter Sunday morning in Derry, New Hampshire. It was first reported by the Associated Press.

It’s 3 a.m. and everybody in Derry is sound asleep. Everybody except for the driver of a car who loses control, crosses a lawn, hits a small rise which launches her over two parked cars and a pickup, then the car clears a set of telephone wires. The car is airborne for about 150 feet, according to Lt. John Muise of the Derry Police Department.

Did I mention where the car lands? On the roof of Spud Donovan’s house! Actually it doesn’t land on Spud’s roof, it plunges through the roof, demolishes three bedrooms and moves the house off its foundation.

The car comes to rest in Spud’s bedroom with the front end resting on a dresser. Did I mention that Spud and his wife are still in bed?

The noise wakes up Spud, but it’s fortunate that he doesn’t sit up because the car’s undercarriage comes to rest inches above Spud’s face. Rescuers dig the Donovans out from under the Sheetrock rubble. Spud tells police he can smell heat from the car’s exhaust.

It’s amazing that Spud’s wife, Joanne, sleeps through the whole episode. Spud wakes her up saying, "Honey, we’ve got company." I love it-humor in the face of danger.

Lt. Muise says the couple is lucky because of the large dresser that stopped the car from falling farther. Otherwise, "they’d have been crushed," the lieutenant adds.

Luck had nothing to do with the saving of Spud and Joanne Donovan. "It was a miracle," says Mrs. Donovan. She’s referring to the fact that standing there on top of the dresser, inches from the car, is a statuette of The Virgin Mary. Happy Easter to the Donovan family, God bless ’em.

Epilogue: You’ve heard the saying: "God protects babies and drunks." The driver of the car, Julie Sarbanis, 20, was not seriously injured. Police did arrest her for drunk driving.