A person has been killed, two others are in hospital and power has been cut to thousands after a Dodge Challenger flew through the air and crashed into the roof of a house in Idaho. The muscle car reportedly came off the road on Sunday and hit a berm, before going airborne and hitting power cables and two houses.
The driver of a white Dodge Challenger in Nampa, Idaho, was caught out while speeding around a corner in the town. The driver reportedly missed a turn and came off the road, where they hit a berm and flew into the air, reports AutoEvolution.
After flying into the air, the car hit overhead power lines, smashed into the chimney of one house and landed on the roof of another. The crash left the driver of the car and one passenger in need of medical attention and killed a third person in the car, as AutoEvolution reports:
The Nampa Police Department reported that the car flew about 40 feet high, snapped four power lines on its flight, hit a brick chimney, smashed it to pieces, and came to a stop when it crashed through the roof of another house. The police got a call about the incident at around 9 AM.
The driver and one of the passengers sustained minor injuries and were transported to a nearby hospital.
However, officials pronounced the 31-year-old man riding in the front passenger seat dead at the scene. The coroner explained that the passenger died from blunt force injuries as a result of the crash.
The car has since been removed from the roof of the house and police have launched an investigation into the events that led up to it getting airborne. As part of the probe, officers have not yet identified the three people involved in the collision.
The car was removed from the roof of the house in the early afternoon of December 1 and locals reported that it took almost as long to restore power to some homes, explained Road & Track. The crash took out four power lines, which cut power to around 3,000 residents:
A Reddit user with the username TheSandMan208 posted about the crash on the r/IdiotsInCars subreddit, claiming to have lost power around 9 a.m. local time before it was returned around 3 p.m. They also claim that the vehicle was removed from the roof of the house later that same afternoon.
“My power has been out for over 4 hours now because some idiot was going over 100mph and couldn’t make the turn. This caused them to hit a dirt mound in a yard, jump the lawn, land on the roof, hit the chimney of said roof, drive off that roof and onto the neighbor’s roof, and crash through their roof,” the post reads.
Nobody inside either home was harmed in the crash and police confirmed in a statement on social media that no other vehicles were involved in the incident.
This isn’t the first car to get airborne and hit a house, and alarmingly it isn’t even the first vehicle to do so this year. In California, the driver of a car jumped a pickup truck before hitting a house after they careered off the road and drove over a lawn.
