A 10-year-old Palm Bay boy was in his bedroom asleep when a car slammed into his home, narrowly missing him.
- A car slammed into a Palm Bay home on Dallum Avenue
- The car nearly hit a 10-year-old boy
- Driver charged with DUI and leaving the scene of an accident
The accident happened at 2 a.m., Monday, along Dallum Avenue.
“I heard a loud bang, and the next thing you know the wall imploded,” says homeowner Glenn Whelpley.
Whelpley was about to turn in for the night when his quiet house got really loud.
“Car was right here, car was in my house,” he described from the hallway.
A vehicle with headlights blaring had smashed right through the front of the home, just feet away from his 10-year-old son, Danny, who was jolted out of a deep sleep.
“I heard his voice and told him to stay in bed,” Whelpley tells News 13. “He said it's kind of like “This is exciting, Dad.’ I'm like ‘No, our house just got run over.’”
Palm Bay firefighters arrived and were able to get to Danny after he waited quietly inside.
Whelpley says a ditch in the front yard slowed the vehicle down.
“If that ditch wasn’t out there and it was a straight away flat run, I’m sure she would have gone through the whole house,” he says.
“I was half asleep, then you hear a big BOOM!” neighbor Cornel Chambers tells News 13.
Chambers says the driver then backed out of the home, then backed into the truck in the driveway and then sped off.
“We heard all these tires spinning. Then we saw her shoot across the street,” he says.
Police said that 50-year-old Paige Oak was the driver of the vehicle, where she drove through another yard and smashed into another parked car.
Police were able to catch Oak after a brief foot chase.
Oak stood in court today and is being held on a $100,000 bond for DUI and leaving the scene of an accident.