‘Well, Call 911’: New York Man Describes Waking up From Nap to Find Himself Pinned Under a Car in His Living Room
A New York man was stunned to find himself pinned under a car that crashed into his home after falling asleep in his living room. In news that should shock almost no one, the driver was a teen.
Police said the 19-year-old driver of the car that crashed into Skip Cunningham’s home in Rutland, New York, was driving at an unsafe speed for the road conditions when the crash occurred.
According to the local sheriff’s office, the driver was traveling on a snow-covered road in Rutland early Tuesday morning when he flew past a stop sign at the T-shaped intersection. The 70-year-old Cunningham lives at the end of that intersection.
“Yeah, this is where the couch was…I was laying down watching television,” Cunningham told WNNY News. “Next thing I knew, I woke up and blood running down my head and a car laying on top of me.”
When Cunningham woke up, he said the driver of the crashed car was “running around saying ‘sorry, sorry, sorry.'” He said he told the teen, “Well, call 911.”
Emergency responders eventually extricated him and took him to Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown. He needed 13 staples in his head to close the wound the car caused.
This isn’t the first time someone has missed that stop sign
Cunningham says this is the fifth time in the 50 years he has lived there that a car has missed the stop sign at the intersection and either run into his driveway or his home. He and his daughter are just happy that it happened when it did, because he often babysits his daughter’s niece.
“Glad that, I mean, it didn’t happen during the day when she was out playing,” his daughter Heather LaRose said. “I mean, you see all the toys and stuff in there and – it just could have been – it was bad enough, it could have been so much worse.”
Cunningham and his daughter would like the state to install a flashing light at the intersection or put guardrails in front of his home. They also said they are willing to move the home’s driveway if it will keep everyone inside the home safer.