SUV strikes porch, crashes into nearby home in Marshall-Shadeland
MARSHALL-SHADELAND, Pa. (KDKA) - An investigation is underway after an SUV slammed into a Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood home overnight, forcing a family from their home.
The home was located along Woodland Avenue. For hours Saturday, it sat with a gaping hole in the front until crews boarded it up Saturday evening.
"It does upset me because now somebody got hurt! Now these people don't have nowhere to live," said Marsha Evans. Evans lives next door and heard the crash around 2:15 a.m.
"It was the biggest bang I ever heard," Evans described.
Then, she said, when she stepped outside her house, she couldn't believe what she was seeing.
"I look a little harder and I see a car down there," she said.
The car, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety, was an SUV. The driver was pinned between the vehicle and the house.
In a release, PPS said the driver, who was not named, was extricated and taken to the hospital in stable condition.
Evans said she could hear the driver yelling for help and the homeowner yelling about his kids.
She said, at the time of the crash, the kids were having a sleepover in the living room. She said that the car ended up right near where the SUV came to a stop.
Evans' front porch was also damaged by the SUV. She said the impact between her house and the car changed its path and, she believes, quite possibly prevented an even bigger tragedy from happening.
"They said, when he hit the house, it changed the direction that the car was going. Because if it would have been going straight, it would have killed the kids in there," she said.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation, according to PPS. However, Evans said she believed the SUV was going too fast down the hill.
One child was taken to the hospital in stable condition. And one adult was transported in critical but stable condition.
