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http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/01/21/12565431.html
OAKVILLE — A 32-year-old man received a rude awakening when a car driven by an elderly woman rocketed through the wall of his home and came dangerously close to crushing him as he slept Thursday morning.
Halton police say the man was snoozing in his basement apartment at 312 Reynolds St. — a large two-storey house southeast of Cornwall and Trafalgar Rds. — when the Ford Taurus crashed into the wall on the east side around 10:30 a.m.
The car smashed through the concrete and came to rest partially inside the man’s bedroom, but halfway up the wall at ground level.
“I heard a loud ‘thud!’ ” said George Rusnov, who lives upstairs in one of the home’s many units.
“The first thing that came to mind actually was that it sounded like a car crashed into the house, but I was shocked when I looked outside and saw that was exactly what had happened,” he added.
Police said an 87-year-old Oakville woman was behind the wheel of the car, which moments earlier was parked across the street at the Oakville Trafalgar Hospital.
Sgt. Brian Carr alleges the senior exited the hospital parking lot by jumping a curb, possibly sideswiping another parked car along the way.
Then, for “unknown reasons,” she drove across the sidewalk, crossed to the east side of Reynolds St., jumped another curb, travelled up the lawn and soared into the side of the house, partially penetrating the wall next to a stairwell that leads to the basement apartment where the man was asleep.
“He wasn’t hit by the vehicle, (but) he was hit by debris and a dresser fell on top of him,” Carr said.
He said the man, whose name was not released, managed to crawl out of the damaged room on his own. He was taken to the hospital across the street.
The extent of his injuries was not immediately clear but he was in stable condition.
There was nothing to suggest the driver’s age was a factor, Carr said.
It’s the second time in just over a week that an elderly driver has made headlines for a serious crash in the GTA.
On Jan. 12, an 83-year-old Etobicoke woman allegedly blew through a red light on Martin Grove Rd. at Eglinton Ave. W. and killed a young mother who was pushing her infant in a stroller across the street.
chris.doucette@sunmedia.ca
OAKVILLE — A 32-year-old man received a rude awakening when a car driven by an elderly woman rocketed through the wall of his home and came dangerously close to crushing him as he slept Thursday morning.
Halton police say the man was snoozing in his basement apartment at 312 Reynolds St. — a large two-storey house southeast of Cornwall and Trafalgar Rds. — when the Ford Taurus crashed into the wall on the east side around 10:30 a.m.
The car smashed through the concrete and came to rest partially inside the man’s bedroom, but halfway up the wall at ground level.
“I heard a loud ‘thud!’ ” said George Rusnov, who lives upstairs in one of the home’s many units.
“The first thing that came to mind actually was that it sounded like a car crashed into the house, but I was shocked when I looked outside and saw that was exactly what had happened,” he added.
Police said an 87-year-old Oakville woman was behind the wheel of the car, which moments earlier was parked across the street at the Oakville Trafalgar Hospital.
Sgt. Brian Carr alleges the senior exited the hospital parking lot by jumping a curb, possibly sideswiping another parked car along the way.
Then, for “unknown reasons,” she drove across the sidewalk, crossed to the east side of Reynolds St., jumped another curb, travelled up the lawn and soared into the side of the house, partially penetrating the wall next to a stairwell that leads to the basement apartment where the man was asleep.
“He wasn’t hit by the vehicle, (but) he was hit by debris and a dresser fell on top of him,” Carr said.
He said the man, whose name was not released, managed to crawl out of the damaged room on his own. He was taken to the hospital across the street.
The extent of his injuries was not immediately clear but he was in stable condition.
There was nothing to suggest the driver’s age was a factor, Carr said.
It’s the second time in just over a week that an elderly driver has made headlines for a serious crash in the GTA.
On Jan. 12, an 83-year-old Etobicoke woman allegedly blew through a red light on Martin Grove Rd. at Eglinton Ave. W. and killed a young mother who was pushing her infant in a stroller across the street.
chris.doucette@sunmedia.ca
