Residents 'devastated' as vandals smash 18 car windows in Wellington street overnight

At least 18 windscreens were broken in Vogeltown’s Whaui St overnight.

Residents along Whaui Street in the suburb of Vogeltown in Wellington woke to find a number of car windows smashed.

1 NEWS counted 18 cars with shattered windscreens.

A car left with it's windshield smashed in overnight attack

One resident remembered hearing a smashing sound around 3:30am, but said they weren't sure what it was at the time.

They guessed a hammer had been used due to the weight needed to smash a windscreen and the small impact area on some cars. 

It appears whoever did it started at the bottom of the street and walked up, hitting every parked car on the street except two.

Another neighbour said she was devastated when she came outside to drop her partner at work, but found the car windscreen so smashed it was unable to be driven. 

She said she is lucky to have insurance but some of the neighbours don't. 

Other residents recounted stories of a car on its side on the street a few weeks ago, a number of burglaries over 40 years of living there, and windscreens being smashed previously - but nothing on this scale. 

Multiple people have reported the incident to police. 

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