EUREKA, Mo. — A car came “saucering through the air,” down an embankment, and crashed into a home in Eureka, Missouri, just feet from where the owners were sleeping. Unbelievably, everyone walked away without significant injuries, according to reports.
Two teens returning from a graduation party early Sunday swerved off the road, hit a tree, before flipping end-over-end down an embankment. As a result of the first point of impact, along with the location of the home in relationship to the road, the vehicle came crashing through the roof of a house, officials told the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
Astonishing photos posted to the Eureka Fire Protection District’s Facebook page shows the white Chevrolet Malibu sticking up vertically from the middle of the master bathroom — about six feet from where the owners were in bed, with their child also asleep in another room.
According to the St Louis Post-Dispatch, the homeowner woke and put out a small fire with a garden hose and the two males inside the car were able to get themselves out of the vehicle.
It seemed miraculous that no one was really injured, including the two teens who managed to extricate themselves from the vehicle and walk away relatively unscathed, officials said, according to the New York Post.
The fire department’s Deputy Chief William Stamberger said that it was “an extreme success story that everybody survived this.”
“They were truly lucky … there could have been the potential for a great amount of disaster,” he said.
“If you look at that crash it’s, like, how did somebody not die?” fire department spokesman Scott Barthelmass told the Post-Dispatch.
“It’s literally incredible. [The car was] literally just saucering through the air end-over-end,” he said.
The unidentified homeowners told Fox 2 Now that they were just grateful no one was hurt and they would let the insurance companies sort out repairing the damage to their home.
