VIDEO: Homeowner nearly hit when SUV slams into Huntington Beach home

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (KNX) — A Huntington Beach homeowner said a trip to the bathroom Thursday afternoon saved his life.

"I had to get up and go to the little boys' room," said homeowner Edward Jollie. "Two, three, four... seconds after that, [I] saw a car come through the house."

Huntington Beach Public Affairs Manager Jennifer Carey said the SUV slammed into the two-story home around 12:15 p.m.

"It did sound like a bomb, and he house filled with smoke and debris and turned everything to that," Jollie recalled.

Paramedics rushed the driver to a hospital.

The man who lives there, Edward Jollie, was home. But that urge to relieve himself spared him from the vehicle's potentially deadly crash landing. He remembered standing in the front moments before the SUV slammed through the wall, just feet away from him. Fortunately, Jollie's daughter was also elsewhere in the home.

"I think we are darn lucky. That's what I think," Jollie declared, choosing joy after back-to-back losses. Jollie said his wife died three months ago.

The car demolished the dining room table, where Jollie had been sitting moments before, a bookshelf, four windows, and an entire wall.

"Our insurance company is looking for a house to move to while they repair the house," Jollie said after authorities declared Jolle's home unfit to live in because of the damage. "[We're] going to a hotel tonight."

The family said they would return Friday to collect as much as they could take with them for now.

Jollie described the driver who hit his home as an 83-year-old neighbor who he believed lived several blocks away. His condition is unknown.

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