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oh my god - car crashes into Miller Place Home
A Miller Place family was jolted awake Monday morning when a car vaulted through the front wall of their house and landed inside. It demolished the wall and left the roof sagging but no one was hurt.
"I opened my bedroom door and right in front of me there was a tire spinning at eye level," said the homeowner, Jim Cordo.
The car blocked all three bedrooms so his wife, Giselle, his son Joe, 20, and a family friend had to climb out the windows to safety after the 6:30 a.m. accident on Miller Place Road. The car's front end came within about six feet of the bedroom doors, he said.
"I saw the whole roof was collapsed and I saw a tire spinning," Cordo said.
"It was devastating. Thank God we all got out safely."
Suffolk police said the driver of the Ford Mustang fell asleep at the wheel, and he was not arrested or charged. Further details were not immediately available.
The family was allowed to go back inside to get medications, but had not been able to retrieve clothing or other personal items, Cordo said a few hours after the accident. He said he was trying to talk to his insurance company, and to get someone over to shore up the roof.
The crash cut off the electricity and phone service to the home, where his family has lived for 15 years, he said.
It will take months to fix the house, he said. "The front wall is gone. The roof is sagging. It's unstable."
The car came down Jersey Avenue and onto Cordo's lawn where it plowed into a newly delivered pile of firewood, police at the scene told Cordo. The car was sent flying when its front wheels struck the logs.
The Mustang scraped across the hood of Cordo's car in the driveway then sailed through the air into the front wall of the house, he said.
"He went over my car and embedded himself into my house. It had to be airborne when it hit my car," Cordo said.
Cordo's son had awakened earlier Monday and had been near the front of the house a few minutes before the crash, he said. "He was in that same spot."
The Mustang's driver appeared to be in a state of shock just after the crash, because he kept trying to start his car even though all its tires were aloft, Cordo said. The driver then recovered enough to dial 911 from inside the car, Cordo said, adding that he saw the driver later, sitting in an ambulance, and the driver apologized.
The family's two Labrador retrievers were unhurt, and were safely carried out through the windows, but two cats are missing, and Cordo hopes they haven't been injured or killed.
"They're both orange tabbies. They're brothers," Cordo said. "One has long hair and a bushy tail, and the other has short hair."
Cordo pleaded, "If anyone sees them, please, please call me."
Then he remembered that his home phone service was disrupted by the crash, and he asked anyone who finds the cats to notify the police.
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