The Newton Patch reported today that a car drove through a fence and into a house on Spaulding Lane this morning.
The accident appears to have been the result of a medical incident. The driver was initially trapped in the car but was then removed and taken to Beth Israel Hospital.
Sounds like a horrible way to start the day for both the driver and the home owner.
I can attest that being the resident of the home in this situation is thoroughly unpleasant, both in the moment and for quite a long time afterward.
Yikes- are yo saying you are the resident or that you have been through this in the past? I can’t even imagine…
Happened to us back in 2006 … car through the living room at 2 am, took out a large chunk of the downstairs. Had to move out for 2 months during the repairs. No one was hurt, not even the driver, who was a drunk 21-year-old coming home from a Red Sox game, but it was pretty traumatic. We’re not the first house near our corner to have that experience, either.
Yikes. Sorry you had to go through that. Two months doesn’t sound like much for repairs, tho I bet it felt like years.
Thanks, Doug. Hadn’t thought about it in a while, but seeing this in the news sure brought it back.
Is it more common now than in the past or is it we just are aware when it happens because of the flow of information now?
Wow Jen I had no idea this had happened to you. That definitely is a sharp corner but I it never occurred go me that you had to worry about cars in your living room because of it.
Jerry, we don’t worry as much about it since we put the boulders in! They are there specifically as car deflectors. We call them Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and d’Artagnan.
Kim, similar incidents happened in the region (don’t remember where exactly) both the week before and the week after ours, and almost everyone I tell what happened to our house knows of another incident … I think it is pretty common, especially for houses at the tops of T intersections. I see no reason why incidents wouldn’t happen more frequently as both our houses and our cars become more numerous, in addition to our being more likely to hear about it now than in the past.