Van crashes through St. Catharines home causing $90,000 in damages
Posted November 2, 2011 2:38 pm.
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Niagara regional police are investigating after a driver crashed through a home in St. Catharines, Ont., on Wednesday morning, causing $90,000 in damages.
The van went from the front yard to the back of the home on Dundonald Street around 9 a.m. The driver was taken to hospital with minor injures. Police are still trying to determine if the driver suffered a medical incident before the crash.
Only one woman was inside the home at the time and miraculously, she wasn’t hurt. Rosemary Watts was on the second floor, police said, and was helped out by officers.
“I just heard this big bang and I didn’t know what the heck it was. I thought somebody threw a bomb at the door,” Watts told CityNews.
“I couldn’t get downstairs. I looked, and I couldn’t, and I just heard my neighbours calling my name. My son said I should buy a lottery ticket,” Watts added.
One young man said he saw the driver moments before the crash.
“I was just at the stop sign and I saw this guy. He just came screeching. … I knew something was up because he ran the stop sign,” witness Nate Myers said.
“This all happened in the span of eight seconds…there’s a lot of senior residents in this area. Nothing really happens in this area,” he added.
A neighbour who was working in his garage at the time described the noise as an “explosion.”
“I thought that the house blew up,” Dave Thompson said.
It’s unclear if charges will be laid.
