PITTSBURGH — There’s significant damage to a Mount Washington home after a car crashed into it early Thursday morning. The porch is gone, and two cars are damaged, but the homeowner says she’s lucky because no one was hurt.
“My alarm goes off at four o’clock, and he hit quarter to four, so he woke me up, and it was like ‘boom,’” Alane Yanalivich said.
Yanalivich, her son and his family were asleep inside their Southern Avenue home Thursday morning when a driver came down Gray Street and barreled into the front porch and then into two parked cars.
“There is no porch, there’s no porch. When the truck got it, it moved over and hit his girlfriend’s car,” she said.
Her son was able to get out of the back door and ran to the driver of the car that crashed, where he allegedly tried to get away.
Yanalivich explained, “My son and the boy across the street there had kept him in his car. He was trying to start it.”
When the driver tried to start the car, it reportedly caught fire. Yanalivich says a neighbor grabbed water and put the fire out while they stayed with the driver until Pittsburgh Police arrived.
“When the police showed up, they first took him to the hospital, then they took him to jail,” she said.
Authorities say the driver was very likely intoxicated.
“People that drink and drive, you pay the consequences,” Yanalivich said.
She’s happy no one was hurt, and that she is allowed to stay in her home.
“He busted a lot of things. Everything is replaceable. Everybody was OK, and you know we’re alive,” she said.
The homeowner says her family has put a GoFundMe together to help her pay her insurance deductible to fix the porch.
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