Teen drivers are dangerous enough when they actually obtain their licenses. So imagine what happens when a 14-year-old gets behind the wheel of a car?

Actually, you don’t have to imagine it, nor do residents of the 1856 Apartments in San Marcos, Texas.

That’s because a 14-year-old girl recently crashed a car straight through the wall of the building, impacting two apartment units. The San Marcos Police Department (SMPD) reported that, luckily, she did not hurt anyone in the crash.

The apartments are rented and normally occupied, “but in this case, the apartment renter was not at home,” said San Marcos Police Chief Stan Standridge.

The 14-year-old driver’s excuse for crashing the car doesn’t add up

SMPD said the 14-year-old girl was driving in the parking lot when she failed to negotiate a turn. No one mentioned how fast she was going or why she didn’t hit the brakes before driving the car completely into someone’s apartment and through their bedroom. Police did, however, report that another 14-year-old girl was in the car at the time of the crash.

“The officers were told that the car was stationary, they were listening to the radio, and then suddenly the vehicle somehow ended up in drive and drove into the apartment,” Standridge told Fox 7 News.

He added, “I do believe it is safe to assume that speed is going to be a factor, speed accompanied by the inability to navigate that turn.”

Authorities are investigating the accident as a felony – unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, according to Standridge. The car belongs to a family member, and investigators are determining whether the parents should share responsibility.

As it turned out, there was much more to the crash than just a damaged car. The San Antonio Express-News reported that the building is uninhabitable, forcing residents of the damaged apartments to move to other units while workers make repairs. San Marcos Electric Utilities also had to shut off power to the building as a precaution.

One resident describes the aftermath of the car crashing into his apartment

The management moved six families in the apartment building to new apartments in the complex. Kameran Jordan, whose bedroom the car crashed into, spoke about the ordeal to KVUE News.

“I got up to go to work, and I came back without a house,” he said.

Jordan also said that on a normal night, he would have been in his bedroom, “lying down, probably watching movies, or playing my games, or hanging out with my dog.”

Instead, he was at work, but when he went home after getting calls about the crash, he found his belongings scattered across the lawn.

“I sat in the car for a little bit, kind of taking everything in because I’m like, ‘Wow, I was literally here 30 minutes ago,'” Jordan said. “Things that I thought would be safer in my room than anywhere else, you know, and now I just don’t have those things anymore.”

Four days after the crash, the car is still sitting in the apartment building. The apartment complex said it is waiting for a structural engineer’s written report to decide when it is safe to remove it.