Car leaves roadway, hits two homes

WAYNE TOWNSHIP, Ind. (WISH) - Officers in Wayne Township responded to an accident involving a car that struck two homes Thursday.

The accident occurred in the area of Country Club Road and 10th Street.

Michael Pruitt with Wayne Township Fire says an 85-year-old woman and her special needs son were heading northbound on County Club Road. Crews say the last thing the woman remembers was crossing 10th Street.

“Everything happened in seconds, just boom!” said neighbor Faustino Sanchez. “I think she was coming at probably 80 miles per hour.”

Neighbors heard the crash, before they saw the damage.

“I thought the kids had knocked the bunk beds upstairs over, it was that loud of an impact,” said Terry Suesz. “It came through, hit the clubhouse, knocked it down. Then it went through the yard next door, then to the next yard."

Police say the car crossed into the southbound lanes of Country Club Road and continued through a wooden fence. The car then went through three backyards, then hit a house and came to rest on another home's deck.

“A pole was just about this close to her face,” said Sanchez.

Police say a pole went through the windshield, right in between where the woman and her son were sitting inside the car.

Both were understandably shook up, but walked away from the crash.

No neighbors were hurt either.

The woman who was driving didn’t want to speak on camera, but says she and her son are just fine tonight.

She says she's never blacked out before - and just isn't sure what happened this time.