DETROIT (WWJ) - One person is in custody after a vehicle crashed into a home early Friday morning on Detroit's east side.
It happened just before 4 a.m. along Promenade Street and East Outer Drive. The driver of an older model Chrysler Pacifica apparently lost control of the vehicle and slammed through the front window of Ellen Tate's home.
Tate often falls asleep on a couch by that front window, but she had a strange feeling so she went to her bedroom instead.
"I knew something hit my house but I didn't know. I thought somebody was breaking in or something or somebody threw something threw the front window. I didn't know," Tate told WWJ's Mike Campbell. "I just know I woke up out my sleep to a boom, bang, crash. It was scary. And when I went to the living room, I couldn't see. It was just smoke. It scared me so bad."
Tate said she heard the two people arguing before police arrived on the scene and administered field sobriety tests. A man was taken into custody and a woman was released.
"They tire is in my living room. I might put it in my yard for a pot because I can't believe that. I can't believe that," said Tate. "I'm so serious. That is some scary stuff."
Tate's daughter couldn't believe her mother wasn't injured.
"We see where they came up because they knocked down her fence and pretty much her whole porch, because there used to be a little wall right there and they knocked all of that in," she said.
The crash remains under investigation.