Rushing driver killed when automobile goes airborne, smashes into Missouri dwelling

A 73-year-old girl was killed after she went airborne whereas driving her automobile 100 mph and crashing right into a Missouri dwelling, practically lacking a toddler and a number of other others.

The unidentified girl, who’s suspected to have suffered from a medical emergency, crashed into the house round 2:30 p.m. close to the intersection of Kingston Drive and Telegraph Street in Lemay, close to St. Louis.

A neighbor’s surveillance cameras caught the horrifying second, displaying the automobile flying by way of the air earlier than smashing into the house, sending bricks flying.

The automobile fly into the air lengthy earlier than getting into the digital camera’s view, because it soared throughout the road, over an SUV, and demolishing the entrance room of the house and inflicting harm to the neighboring home.

The girl hit an embankment whereas driving at an “extraordinarily excessive charge of velocity” earlier than coming airborne, the St. Louis County Police Division stated.

The girl was pronounced lifeless on the scene.

“This was not a blatant rushing state of affairs however might have been the results of a medical emergency,” a spokesperson for the St. Louis County Police Division informed KSDK.

Inside the house, a toddler was sitting on a mattress contained in the room that the automobile entered, pushing the mattress into the wall. The kid was unhurt, in keeping with KMOV, and the adults had been in one other room speaking politics.

Derek Wentzel, who was inside the house, stated the automobile “may’ve completely hit him…missed him by inches.”

Wentzel’s girlfriend and the kid’s mother and father have been additionally within the dwelling throughout the crash.

The house could also be a “whole loss,” in keeping with Wentzel. He stated: “They stated we might not be capable to enter our dwelling in any respect.”

Wentzel’s mom, Diane, stated she was shocked to seek out her son’s dwelling broken after she arrived on the scene, saying: “This solely occurs within the films.

“I simply hope she didn’t even know what was occurring because it occurred.”

Kingston Drive has had varied issues with quick drivers within the space, with resident Janet Moeller describing it as a “child of freeway within the metropolis.”

“They do velocity so much right here, like 50 or 60 up right here,” one other close by resident Benjamin Carlin informed KMOV.

Debbie Gleiforst, whose own residence was hit by a bus earlier this yr, stated persons are “driving too quick.”

“They’re attending to be an increasing number of individuals on medicine and consuming and never being secure individuals.”