A woman’s body has been found under the rear of a car in the driveway of a home in Adelaide’s north-west.

Police were called to the house on Addison Road in Pennington on Thursday at 6:40am.

Police said the 45-year-old woman, who lived at the address, died at the scene.

Detectives have determined the death is non-suspicious and will prepare a report for the coroner.

Police at the Pennington home.(ABC News: Natasha Thiele )

A family friend at the scene said the woman was a single mother of four children, one of whom raised the alarm.

She had emigrated from Vietnam in recent years.

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