When I first saw this video clip, I assumed it must be some young male driver in this horrific crash. I wuz wrong.

Quote:ST. LOUIS COUNTY — A 73-year-old woman died Tuesday afternoon after crashing a vehicle into a home in south St. Louis County, just west of Jefferson Barracks Park.

Cheryl Doyon died at the scene on Kingston Drive, near Telegraph Road. Her car veered off the road, hit an embankment and went airborne before crashing around 2:30 p.m. The crash caused major damage to the front of the home, but no one inside the home was injured.

Doyon lived on Tuckahoe Drive in unincorporated south St. Louis County.

Police said early indications were that Doyon's vehicle was traveling "at an extremely high rate of speed" when it crashed.

Several neighbors on Wednesday said speeding cars are a common occurrence on that road, but St. Louis County police Officer Adrian Washington said the crash did not appear to be a case of "blatant speeding," and Doyon may have had a medical emergency.

Investigators are still trying to pin down what exactly caused the crash, Washington said.

Nicky Buehler, a neighbor who for 20 years has lived on Kingston Drive, said she initially thought the loud boom from the crash was thunder.

"It shook the whole house," Buehler said. "It was sad to see a house very similar to mine with a car through it."

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crim...d5546.html

Quote:Video captured the moment an out-of-control car flew through the air and slammed straight into a home near St. Louis, Missouri.

The terrifying crash was captured by a nearby home's doorbell camera. It shows the car spinning mid-air, clipping the front steps of one home before smashing straight through the front of the home next door.

Eyewitnesses said the car looked like it was speeding at nearly 100 mph and traveled a couple hundred feet before the moment of impact.

The driver of that car was killed in the wreck, but miraculously the family living inside the second home was not hurt.

Video is here

Something similar happened near my neighborhood. Dude ran a stop sign and plowed into the house across the street. Turned out that was due to a medical emergency.

I suspect that was probably what happened, a medical emergency.

It is possible that there was some kind of mechanical malfunction, a stuck throttle or gas pedal. If that was the case, a panicked driver has to think fast and take the vehicle out of gear ASAP. Unfortunately, some drivers in their panic don't think of that.

(07-20-2023 12:51 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  I suspect that was probably what happened, a medical emergency.

It is possible that there was some kind of mechanical malfunction, a stuck throttle or gas pedal. If that was the case, a panicked driver has to think fast and take the vehicle out of gear ASAP. Unfortunately, some drivers in their panic don't think of that.

Especially 70+ yo women.

WOW! She must have been going over 100 mph to fly like that. Unbelievable.

Crazy that red car didn’t even get scratched.