JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville mother says she doesn’t feel safe staying in her own home after a car crashed right into her bedroom. Thankfully, her two children walked away unharmed as the mother wasn’t home at the time.
She tells Action News Jax she wouldn’t have survived the impact.
The damage destroyed the bedroom and the furniture on the inside. She says the car drove right through the fence before hitting her home.
The accident happened on Reid Avenue near Lem Turner Road. Residents say the road is like a speedway, and they’re thankful nobody was hurt.
The aftermath of the crash destroyed the door, wall and everything in its path. At 4 a.m., the mother, Erica Alexander, said a drunk driver went right through her bedroom.
“Furniture was destroyed and I lost some clothing items, but all of that stuff can be replaced,” Alexander said. “Materialistic things, but had I been home, I couldn’t get my life back had I lost it.”
She found out after her daughter texted her.
“It is insane. You see it on TV, but you never think it would happen at your house,” she said.
Even neighbors woke up to the crash.
“It was like a big boom, like a bomb went off, that’s what it sounded like,” neighbor Buster Alexander said.
The neighbor said he looked outside and saw the tail lights of a car sticking out of the house. They both say similar incidents have happened in the past.
“We ain’t safe, because (they) need to put a barrier up around the back there to keep the car from coming on our property, because next time someone could get killed,” he said.
Erica Alexander says she is thankful nobody was hurt.
“I would be a basket case right about now. I’m thankful that my children were safe,” she said.
They’re hoping the property managers will do something about this ongoing problem. Erica Alexander showed Action News Jax the filed police report, and we have reached out to JSO for a copy of it.