SUV Slams Into One Side Of Levittown Home And Comes Out The Other

LEVITTOWN, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) -- A Levittown couple got a rude awakening overnight, when an out-of-control SUV crashed into one side of their home and went out the other.

It happened just after midnight.

A man driving a Nissan Pathfinder came down Collector Lane, crossed over Jester Lane, somehow missed two cars parked in the driveway and a tree in the front yard before plowing straight into the home's front door, CBS2's Diane Macedo reported.

The homeowner, who did not want to be on camera, told CBS2 that she and her husband were sleeping at the time of the crash.

"There was a loud bang," Terry Seeman said. "I got up out of bed and walked out into the kitchen. I was disoriented. I didn't see any furniture in the dining room anymore, and my husband was behind me and I said, 'Why are there lights on the wall? What are those lights?' And he looked for a second and he said, 'It's a car.' They were the taillights at the back of the car."

"We were sound asleep. We woke up to the crash," Terry's husband, Tony, told 1010 WINS' Mona Rivera. "We walked in and saw the car in the middle of the dining room and den."

Neighbors Diana and Jerry Mirando said it took them a while to realize what happened.

"I heard a very big bang, and I thought a transformer had blown," Diana Mirando said.

"I saw police cars in the front, so I came out to check it out and I saw one third of the house gone," Jerry Mirando said.

No one in the house was injured.

Police said the driver was injured, but not critically, Rivera reported.

The house sustained serious damage. The car took out the front door, went through the dining room and took out part of the den before plowing through a side wall and landing in the side yard, Macedo reported.

"It went all the way through the house, about 20 feet of the exterior wall went straight out the back," said repairman Peter D'Ambrosio said. "A lot of debris, a lot of chaos. Broken windows, broken tables. Gotta feel bad for these people, in the middle of the night getting woken up for something like that."

Police did not elaborate on the driver's identity or the cause of the crash, but they say he's a man from Bethpage and that it was strictly an accident with no criminality involved, CBS2 reported.

Meanwhile, with temperatures dropping, the Seemans said their immediate concern is getting their heat and hot water back on, which the repair company hopes to have done by either Tuesday or Wednesday.

The Mirandos said this isn't the first time a car has crashed into a home in the neighborhood.

Diana Mirando explained that about two years ago, a different driver went around a tree and came onto the Seemans' property before making a right turn and crashing into the side of another house.

The homeowners in that case also were unharmed.

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