HOUSTON – Surveillance video captured the moment a truck veered off the roadway and ended up slamming into a southeast Houston home Sunday.
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It happened just before 9:30 a.m. in the 12200 block of Palmsprings Drive.
The video shows the red truck traveling at a high rate of speed veering off the roadway, appearing to strike a culvert or ditch before taking air and flipping. The truck ended up hitting a house in the area.
“It’s only a miracle that I’m alive,” Eloisa Cavanaugh, who lives at the home, told KPRC 2′s Corley Peel.
Cavanaugh showed us the damage after the truck plowed into the home.
“Just see how it took all the frame. The door just fell down. It just blew boom,” she said. “This is my kitchen. I just got through making breakfast for myself, and I went to the bedroom to lay down and take my breakfast. And all of a sudden, my whole house, everything just went up.”
Cavanaugh said she thought a bomb had gone off when she heard the truck come into the home.
After the car came speeding down the street, crashing into Cavanaugh’s home, neighbors saw the driver pick up a water hose to try and put the fire out.
“The fire was coming in the house. That’s why I thought it was a bomb. I didn’t know was there was a car behind the fire and I could hear some moaning,” Cavanaugh said.
Neighbors carried her out of the house.
Houston Police said the driver of the truck had minor injuries. Firefighters also came to the rescue.
“I told them there was no way I could leave because I’m on dialysis. And he said, okay, well, we’ll just board up the house for you,” Cavanaugh said.
She said the roof is cracked all the way to the bedroom.
“That’s why they said it was, you know, they didn’t want me to stay,” Cavanaugh said.
“How are you going to make these repairs now?” asked Corley.
“He has insurance with Allstate, so I’m gonna claim tomorrow,” said Cavanaugh.
Cavanaugh says she is worried the house could crumble at some point.
“Yes, I am. But I’m going to stay in that room and hopefully it doesn’t rain or doesn’t get cold,” she said.
At this time, it is unclear if the driver of the truck will face charges.