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Woman Says She’s Lucky to be Alive After Car Smashes into Living Room

MONTOURSVILLE — Police are investigating whether a 94-year-old driver was under the influence when he slammed into his neighbor’s home in Lycoming C...
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MONTOURSVILLE -- Police are investigating whether a 94-year-old driver was under the influence when he slammed into his neighbor's home in Lycoming County.

The house is boarded up now but debris was thrown around the yard and scattered through the house after the car crashed.

And the woman who lives there says she saw the car coming.

"I thought at first he was going to get me and I thought, 'I'm over, it's over,' is what was in my mind," Sandy Platt recalled.

She is struggling to focus after the car plowed into her front window Sunday afternoon.

Montoursville police took the pictures and tell us a 94-year-old man  -- Sandy's neighbor  -- crashed his Buick into the home that sits at the corner of a dead end road.

"My dad was over on the left side of the window. My mom was sitting on the right side," said their son Steve Platt.

Like many Sundays, Sandy and her husband Leary were in their living room watching TV.

"I had jumped out of my chair and when I heard the noise," said Sandy.

What Sandy heard was her neighbor's Buick hitting a trailer parked at the end of the road.

"After he hit that, you can see the tire marks. He went through the yard and hit the tree," said Patrolman Paul Hagemeyer.

Sandy made it to her front door just in time to see her neighbor's car reversing through her front  window into her house. She says it all happened so fast she didn't have time to tell her husband to get out of the way.

"My father's chair was thrown across the room and he landed on the couch and his shoulder landed into the wall," said Steve.

Sandy was untouched.  Her husband has a few broken ribs and an injured leg and shoulder.  He's in the hospital recovering.

As for the driver, his family says he's doing OK.

Montoursville police say the crash is now under investigation for a suspected DUI.

It's estimated the repairs to home will cost at least $10,000. Sandy is relieved this wasn't worse.

"I think we are very lucky to be alive, both my husband and myself."

Sandy is allowed back in her house.  Her husband may have to stay at a nursing home until he is strong enough to come home.

 

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