MARCUS HOOK, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) — Police in Delaware County are piecing together an unusual and violent crash that happened overnight. A car went off the road and slammed into several homes. One of the houses then went up in flames.
Police say a car was flying down Market Street by Laughead Avenue around midnight. It hit a fence and then the front porches of a pair of twin homes, causing the shared porch roof to collapse. Then finally it crashed into another house.
Crews try to move what’s left of the car that slammed into the house and caused the fire. pic.twitter.com/65MCW4GIxk
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March 27, 2019 Mary lives lives right across the street from where the car ended up and says it was inevitable.
"I have to say, on this street, people just fly up and down," she said. There was a loud bang and Mary, her husband and son and son-in-law, woke up and ran across the street to try to help the woman inside.
"You could hear the gas," Mary said. "The gas was making the funny noise, and the house was engulfed in smoke. And she was trying to get out the front door, and she was yelling, 'Help me, help me!'"
"My wife ran over and was yelling for her to go to the back," her husband Thomas said. "We jumped the fence in the back and went in the back door and got her."They got her out before the house went up in flames.
"Thank God, thank God," Mary said. "You can replace things but you can’t replace people."
A better look at the damage on Market Street in Marcus Hook. In the second picture, you can see the crumpled up and burnt car on the front porch. @KYWNewsradio pic.twitter.com/LyDSSw2on0
— Tim Jimenez (@TimJRadio)
March 27, 2019 Thomas says the driver of the car was ejected. He was taken to the hospital. Officials have not released his condition. No one has explained what may have caused him to lose control, but Thomas says he knows the driver was going way too fast.
"They figure he had to be doing at least 80 miles, 80-90 miles an hour," he said.
It’s not clear if he’ll be charged.
A firefighter was also hurt. That firefighter's condition has not been released.
