Last week, trucks crashed into homes in two separate incidents in Dallas two days in a row.
On Wednesday, May 25, between 10:30 p.m. and 11 p.m., a man suffered a medical emergency while driving his full-sized pickup truck in the Bryan Place neighborhood in Old East Dallas.
The man lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a house on the 3200 block of Jacinto Street.
The pickup truck managed to plow through a small brick fence, the house’s brick facade, and three different rooms before breaking out of the rear of the house and stopping in the backyard.
A man and his dog were inside the house watching TV at the time, but the truck did not pass through the room they were in.
A video camera captured footage of the pickup truck blasting past a stop sign at a three-way intersection at a high rate of speed before disappearing into the unlucky house.
“My neighbor said it was about 100 miles an hour,” said neighborhood resident David Allen to WFAA.
Neither the man inside the house nor his dog sustained any injuries. However, police said the pickup truck driver was taken to the hospital with serious injuries but was expected to survive.
According to Fox 4, no one can safely remove the pickup truck from the property until engineers evaluate the house’s structural integrity.
Fewer details are known about the second crash.
According to Dallas police, a different truck managed to crash into a house on the 500 block of East Ohio Avenue the following day.
On Thursday, May 26, around 8:30 p.m., an intoxicated man drove into the property line fence of a church in the neighborhood. As he backed out, he hit the front of a house with his truck.
Police alleged the man was high on PCP.
