Car crashes into group home in Racine, displacing 4
RACINE, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Four people have to find a new place to live after a car crashed into a group home in Racine early Saturday morning. Since Thursday, it's the third car to crash into a home in the area.
Just after 2:15 a.m., Racine police say they responded a Dodge Durango inside a home near 16th and Indiana on Saturday, Oct. 26. A 39-year-old man was driving the vehicle with a 47-year-old female in the passenger seat.
The house that was hit was a group home and had four people in the home at the time of the crash. The two occupants of the vehicle and a 61-year-old inside the home were transported to a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
"I came out running to the house and I saw a woman bleeding from her head, so I gave her my T-shirt," said Daniel Cameron, a neighbor who saw the crash happen and tried to help the woman who was injured. “I didn’t want anything to happen to her.”
“It was very clear when I got up Saturday morning that the crews were already here cleaning up the mess," said Kerry Dzindzeleta, who lives near the group home.
The driver of the vehicle was released from the hospital and arrested on two counts of Reckless Endangering Safety, two counts of Reckless Driving - Causing Injury, and a probation violation.
Police say the Red Cross was called to assist with the residents of the group home who have been displaced by the accident.
Just two days before the crash on 16th Street, a 31-year-old man crashed into a vacant home Thursday morning. Then Sunday morning, officers responded to the area of Spring and Freres for an accident involving a vehicle that struck a house.
With three crashes of similar nature in the area, the neighbors around those homes want people to be aware of the reckless driving in the area.
"It’s like living on the Indianapolis Speedway," Dzindzeleta said.
“That was my first time going through something like that, so I was just in shock," Cameron said. "“It was just sad. I hope the woman is OK."