The SUV’s wild brick-busting detour Wednesday night saw it smash through the front window of a 4-story Newark townhouse and wind up entirely inside a room on the home’s main floor — one floor above the garden level.
A dramatic photo taken seconds after the Pathfinder barreled over the foundation bed, went airborne and crash-landed into a family’s computer room even shows particles of churned-up dirt still flying through the air.
Minutes before the crash, Gloria Sinclair’s daughter and grandson had been watching TV in the room where the SUV finally came to a stop, she told the Newark Star-Ledger.
But thankfully the two were not in the room when the Nissan busted through the brick wall. No one was injured.
“I just thought the whole house was caving in,” she said.
News reports did not identify the Pathfinder’s driver.
Neighbors who heard the crash expected the outcome to be worse.
“You thought it was a bomb, maybe it was an explosion downtown,” Evelyn Sykes, 28, told the Star-Ledger. “The house shook and the windows were shaking.”
“I wasn’t expecting to see that.”
The SUV left a cavernous 10’-by-10’ hole in Sinclair’s home, and also took out several parking meters. A tow truck yanked the Nissan out of the computer room about three hours after the crash.
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