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http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Woman+dies+hits+south+Ottawa+house/3103408/story.html
OTTAWA-A car crashed into a Blossom Park home Wednesday after the driver — a 72-year-old woman — suffered an apparent fatal heart attack.
The woman, identified by relatives as Antonietta La Vecchia, was driving east on Rosebella Avenue when the car suddenly veered off the road and struck a small house on the corner of Bank Street and Rosebella Avenue.
The force of the crash shifted the pink, wood-sided home at 2894 Bank St. several inches off its foundation.
The woman who rents the house was away when the crash occurred at 12:45 p.m. However, she returned home moments after the accident to find bystanders had called 911. The woman, who would identify herself only as Lucy, said she’d been intending to have a nap after finishing work at noon. The car had crashed into the corner closest to her bedroom.
When firefighters arrived, they took her inside. She found many of her belongings had been moved by the impact. “It’s just a shock,” said Lucy, who has been renting the newly renovated house for a month.
Ottawa fire spokesman Mark Messier said firefighters arrived on the scene to find the driver trapped in her car. The damage was so severe it took firefighters 16 minutes to extricate her, he said.
Paramedics tried to revive the woman once she was free of the car, but eventually pronounced her dead at the scene, spokesman J.P. Trottier said.
Leo La Vecchia, the brother of the woman, said later he was told his sister had probably suffered a heart attack. He said he heard about the accident on the radio, “but it never occurred to me it was my sister.”
He said she came to Canada in 1957 as a young woman. She and her husband, who died a few years ago, had four children and five grandchildren.
Police marked a spot several metres from the house where they believe the woman veered off the road and onto the lawn before hitting the house.
The front of the car crumpled against the corner of the house, with a front air bag deployed. A headlight lay more than five metres away near the sidewalk on Bank Street.
Trottier said the vehicle had to have been travelling at a substantial speed to shift the house off its foundation.
The chimney was cracked, with pieces broken away. An air conditioner lay on the grass below a side window, still plugged in. Ottawa Hydro cut the power line to the house.
Fire officials estimated damages at $120,000 and said the house would likely need to be levelled.
The owner of the house, Tony Catizzone, who lives next door, said he had owned the house for 10 years, but he wasn’t worried about the building.
“This is nothing. It could be fixed. It’s material things.” Catizzone said. “My heart goes out to the family.”
With files from Kristy Nease and Robert Sibley
© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA-A car crashed into a Blossom Park home Wednesday after the driver — a 72-year-old woman — suffered an apparent fatal heart attack.
The woman, identified by relatives as Antonietta La Vecchia, was driving east on Rosebella Avenue when the car suddenly veered off the road and struck a small house on the corner of Bank Street and Rosebella Avenue.
The force of the crash shifted the pink, wood-sided home at 2894 Bank St. several inches off its foundation.
The woman who rents the house was away when the crash occurred at 12:45 p.m. However, she returned home moments after the accident to find bystanders had called 911. The woman, who would identify herself only as Lucy, said she’d been intending to have a nap after finishing work at noon. The car had crashed into the corner closest to her bedroom.
When firefighters arrived, they took her inside. She found many of her belongings had been moved by the impact. “It’s just a shock,” said Lucy, who has been renting the newly renovated house for a month.
Ottawa fire spokesman Mark Messier said firefighters arrived on the scene to find the driver trapped in her car. The damage was so severe it took firefighters 16 minutes to extricate her, he said.
Paramedics tried to revive the woman once she was free of the car, but eventually pronounced her dead at the scene, spokesman J.P. Trottier said.
Leo La Vecchia, the brother of the woman, said later he was told his sister had probably suffered a heart attack. He said he heard about the accident on the radio, “but it never occurred to me it was my sister.”
He said she came to Canada in 1957 as a young woman. She and her husband, who died a few years ago, had four children and five grandchildren.
Police marked a spot several metres from the house where they believe the woman veered off the road and onto the lawn before hitting the house.
The front of the car crumpled against the corner of the house, with a front air bag deployed. A headlight lay more than five metres away near the sidewalk on Bank Street.
Trottier said the vehicle had to have been travelling at a substantial speed to shift the house off its foundation.
The chimney was cracked, with pieces broken away. An air conditioner lay on the grass below a side window, still plugged in. Ottawa Hydro cut the power line to the house.
Fire officials estimated damages at $120,000 and said the house would likely need to be levelled.
The owner of the house, Tony Catizzone, who lives next door, said he had owned the house for 10 years, but he wasn’t worried about the building.
“This is nothing. It could be fixed. It’s material things.” Catizzone said. “My heart goes out to the family.”
With files from Kristy Nease and Robert Sibley
© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen
