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Truck crashes into Ohio home while man watches TV

Pickup truck crashed into a house in Madison Township, Ohio, Thursday, June 16, 2011 WKRC

(CBS/AP) MIDDLETOWN, Ohio - You want reality TV?

A man eating lunch and watching television at his home in southwest Ohio says he was shocked into reality - when a pickup truck plowed into his living room and came to rest a few feet from his couch.

Fifty-nine-year-old Steve Ferguson tells the Middletown Journal he was lucky, because the Ford pickup would have run him over if he'd been sitting at his computer in a corner of the room.

No one was hurt in the crash early Thursday afternoon in Butler County's Madison Township. The truck's 19-year-old driver told police he hit the house after losing control on wet pavement.

Butler County Sheriff's Deputy Mike Baker said the driver would be charged with failure to control.

Ferguson, meanwhile, is probably looking for his remote control.


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