The front end of an SUV ended up inside a hotel room in Long Beach early Tuesday morning after it smashed into a building on Cherry Avenue.

Nobody at the hotel was hurt because the woman renting the room wasn’t inside when the vehicle careened through the wall at around 4:12 a.m., according to authorities.

“Thank God she wasn’t there,” said Tony Knox, who manages the Liberty Hotel, which is in the 1800 block of Cherry Avenue at the base of Signal Hill.

The SUV was headed down the hill when it clipped a wooden telephone pole about half a block north of the hotel and the driver lost control, Long Beach Fire Department Battalion Chief Ralph Morentin said.

The vehicle then jumped the curb and slammed into the corner of the two-story building, he said. It ended up smashing almost completely through the bedroom, according to Morentin.

“It was just a humongous boom like a bomb went off,” said Knox. “The whole building shook.”

Firefighters called in a search and rescue team, which was able to remove the vehicle and shore up the building with wooden braces, according to Morentin.

After a building inspector checked the structure, the tenants were let back inside, Morentin said.

The woman who’d been staying in the room is in town to visit family and was able to find a place to stay, Knox said. She’d been renting the room for about two weeks, he said.

It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the crash. Police said they’re investigating whether the driver was under the influence.

Authorities took the driver to the hospital, but his injuries weren’t life-threatening, according to police.