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Posted: 7:23 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10, 2012

Car slams through Bedford Co. home; owner says it's happened before

By Maria Miller

BEDFORD COUNTY, Pa. —


A car slammed into a Bedford County home Sunday and thanks to a change in routine, no one was hurt.

"My youngest one does sleep on the couch, watches TV and he could have been laying here," said homeowner Sabrina Peirce.

Luckily no one inside the car or the home was hurt but the Peirce said it's not the first time a car has crashed through her home, in fact she said crashes happen so often along the stretch of roadway that she feels something needs to be done .

"You heard glass breaking and then you felt the house just shake as it rippled through," Peirce described the crash.

It was about 11:30 p.m. Sunday she said a car traveling along 220 South lost control and slammed into her house.

"The back end of the car was up into the living room," she said. "It had all of this pushed out and everything was thrown everywhere."

Since the Peirce's moved in seven years ago, she said they've had a few run-ins.

"The first time there was a porch on this side and it hit hard enough that the beams underneath the floor (were pushed) off the foundation."

She also said her rental property was run into just last year. In that case she said the drivers left the scene.

Since 2007, PennDOT said there have been eight reported crashes along the stretch of roadway but Peirce said she knows of several others.

'This turn down here ... People don't slow down," she said. "The turn is banked a little higher and when they hit the gravel and correct themselves they over correct and it throws them right into my house."

Now she's not only left with another mess to clean up and added bills before the holidays, she said her family is scared of being inside their own home.

"My kids are petrified," she said. 'I'm afraid it's going to either come to one of them being hurt, myself or one of being killed before they do something to help me."

PennDOT told 6 News one mile stretch of roadway in front of Peirce's home was already declared an aggressive driving area two years ago saying all reported crashes have been speed related. Since then PennDOT said they've added caution signs and rumbles strips. They said there's not much more they can do except ask state police to add more patrols to the area.

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