If Helen Gleeson had been sitting in her lounge shortly after 7pm on Tuesday, she might not still be alive. Thankfully the 78-year-old was in her bedroom when a red Toyota Camry careened through the corner of her home at the Bupa Winara Retirement Village in Waikanae, north of Wellington. “I got a hell of a fright,” she said. “At first I thought it was an earthquake, but the ground wasn’t moving so then I decided it must be a meteorite.