CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — Multiple people suffered serious injuries after a car crashed into a home in Clearwater early Sunday morning.
The crash happened at a house on 16 N. Highland Avenue around 4:18 a.m. When firefighters arrived, they immediately began removing four victims from the wreckage.
The victims were unable to be airlifted to the hospital due to the severe weather at the time, so the patients were transported by ground as trauma alerts.
Detectives learned that the vehicle was traveling north on Highland Avenue at a high rate of speed when the driver lost control and slammed into the home.
The family that resides in the house was out of town at the time of the crash.
Firefighters spent the morning trying to prevent the roof from collapsing.
Jennifer Roe was up early and she’s glad she was. She said she heard a loud crash. When she ran outside, she saw the car inside a home.
“We didn’t know if anyone was home or not,” Roe said. “I ran around saw a woman pinned, and she was trying to hold herself up.”
Roe said this isn’t the first major accident in this area.
“It just drives me crazy because we’ve been here seven years and we’ve incidents like this,” Roe said. “I wasn’t thinking, I was covered in blood when I got home, you don’t think.”
