SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, Pa. — A crash in Schuylkill County left one person hurt and two homes damaged.
It happened around 6:30 a.m. Thursday on Route 901 near Minserville.
Newswatch 16's Amanda Eustice talked to neighbors who say crashed like the one this morning happen all too often.
Belinda Balcavage is breathing a sigh of relief. She lives along Route 901, also known as Sunbury Road in Cass Township, near Minersville. She often spends the morning sitting on her front porch.
"I usually go out in the morning and sit on the porch. Thank God I wasn't out there because they would have been taking me to the hospital with a heart attack."
Balcavage said she got a wake-up call she was not expecting.
"The neighbor called me and said I needed to get out of the house. There was an accident, and I come downstairs, look out my front window, and saw that there was a car, and my porch pillars were all bent, and so I came outside, out the back, and went out front and sure enough, there the car into my house."
Balcavage says two men were in the car when it hit this vacant house then smashed into hers. The passenger was taken to the hospital.
Balcavage says the driver told her that he fell asleep.
"I'm sick because we sit on that porch constantly, all summer long," said Balcavage. "We came in to inspect the inside of the house to make sure there is no damage to the inside of the house, thank God."
Neighbors tell us that crashes happen on this stretch of Route 901 way too often, and they blame it on people not following the speed limit.
Diane Houser lives just across the street. She said she woke up to the noise of the crash.
"This morning, I thought it was a garbage man, but it wasn't. It was a car on its roof with two occupants in it, and I'm constantly picking them up. You hear the fire whistles, and the first thing you do is look out the window, make sure nobody rolled over on the road."
Houser has a message for drivers.
"Slow the hell down! Really, what's your hurry? And be careful."