Police have charged a man after they allege he crashed his car through the security gate of a house in Alice Springs before attacking a woman who was then flown to hospital in Adelaide in a critical condition.

NT Police media manager Rob Cross said they alleged the 38-year-old man drove his vehicle through a “secured front gate” of a Gillen home about 2.30am on Tuesday morning, before going into the house and seriously physically assaulting a 31-year-old woman.

He said the alleged attack left the woman in a critical condition and she was taken to Alice Springs Hospital before being flown to Royal Adelaide Hospital where she remains in a serious condition.

Mr Cross said the man arrested at the scene and charged with intention to cause serious harm, and causing serious harm and will appear before court on Wednesday.