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Video captures moment car crashes into Des Moines home

Video captures moment car crashes into Des Moines home
STEPHEN STACY NOW ACCORDING TO THE MINE POLICE, A TOYOTA DRIVEN BY A 17 YEAR OLD, HE WAS ALONE IN THAT TOYOTA WAS HEADING SOUTH ON 54TH STREET WHEN IT CROSSED THE STREET WITHOUT STOPPING AT THE STOP ON IT, DOUGLAS HITTING 100 THAT DROVE HIM INTO THIS SHOT ON THE CORNER, CAUSING ALL KINDS OF DAMAGE, AS YOU CAN SEE AND ASK BY VIDEO FROM THE HOMEOWNER. WE’RE ABOUT TO SHOW YOU THIS DID NOT HELP. THIS IS HOW THE CRASH ENDED SUNDAY NIGHT. ONE CAR CRASHING INTO MALLORY CLANCY’S HOME, THE OTHER TUMBLING TO A STOP IN HER FRONT YARD WITH HER TWO MONTH OLD SON IN HER ARMS. SHE SHOWS US SOME OF THE DAMAGE. OKAY. SO OUR FRONT FENCE IS GONE HERE. WE OBVIOUSLY WHERE THE CAR HIT THE HOUSE. WE LOOKED INSIDE. THERE’S NOT TOO MUCH DAMAGE. THERE IS MORE DAMAGE IN HER FRONT YARD. YOU CAN SEE CHUNKS OF GRASS MISSING AND THERE ARE STILL GLASS FROM A SHATTERED CAR WINDOW OR WINDSHIELD. MALLORY WAS NOT HOME WHEN THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED. SHE WAS ABOUT HALF A BLOCK AWAY, IN LINE TO GET ICE CREAM. I WAS OVER AT DAIRY QUEEN IN THE DRIVE THROUGH WITH MY DAUGHTER AND WE HEARD IT AND I LOOKED OVER AND SAW THE CARS COMING INTO THE YARD. THOUGHTS OF ICE CREAM EVAPORATED. HER FOCUS WAS FROZEN ON HER SON AND HUSBAND. WHERE’S MY BABY? SO I CALLED MY HUSBAND RIGHT AWAY AND HE JUST ANSWERED THE PHONE AND SAID, WE’RE OKAY. SHE LEARNED HER HUSBAND WAS IN THE BACK ROOM GETTING THE BABY READY FOR BED WHEN THE CAR HIT THE HOME. BOTH ARE FINE, BUT JUST MINUTES BEFORE HER HUSBAND AND SON WERE IN THE FRONT ROOM WHERE THE CAR HIT. SHE KNOWS HER FAMILY WAS FORTUNATE WHEN THINKING ABOUT HOW CLOSE TO CALL IT WAS AND WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED. SHE SUMS IT UP LIKE THIS. TERRIFYING. ACTUALLY. THIS MORNING I WAS CLEANING UP AND ON HIS PLACEMAT THERE WAS PAINT CHIPS FROM THE WALL THAT HAD SPRAYED OVER. NOW, THERE’S STILL A LOT OF CLEAN UP HERE TO BE DONE AT THIS HOME. THERE YOU SEE THE HOMEOWNER IN THE BACKGROUND KIND OF WORKING ON A TEMPORARY FENCE. AND WE WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THE TWO PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THE VEHICLE THAT GOT HIT THERE IN THE HOSPITAL IN CRITICAL CONDITION, THE 17 YEAR OLD DRIVING THE TOYOTA WAS TREATED AT THE SCENE AND WAS NOT HOSPITALIZED. WE’RE LIVE IN DES MOINES. I’M MARC
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Video captures moment car crashes into Des Moines home
It was 7:10 p.m. Sunday — a day and time Mallory Clancy will not forget.She was about a block away in the drive-thru with her daughter getting ice cream when she heard a terrible sound."It sounded like a trailer full of logs flipped over," Clancy said.She turned around in time to watch one car crash into her house and another come to rest on its side in her front yard.Her husband and son were home at the time.She quickly learned her husband was in the back room with the baby and both were OK.She said she feels fortunate their damage was done to things, not people."Our front fence is gone. We looked inside, there's not too much damage," Clancy said.The accident happened when a Toyota driven by a teen was heading south on 54th, going through the stop sign.The Toyota hit a Hyundai going east on Douglas.The driver and passenger of that car were taken to the hospital. Both are listed in critical condition.

It was 7:10 p.m. Sunday — a day and time Mallory Clancy will not forget.

She was about a block away in the drive-thru with her daughter getting ice cream when she heard a terrible sound.

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"It sounded like a trailer full of logs flipped over," Clancy said.

She turned around in time to watch one car crash into her house and another come to rest on its side in her front yard.

Her husband and son were home at the time.

She quickly learned her husband was in the back room with the baby and both were OK.

She said she feels fortunate their damage was done to things, not people.

"Our front fence is gone. We looked inside, there's not too much damage," Clancy said.

The accident happened when a Toyota driven by a teen was heading south on 54th, going through the stop sign.

The Toyota hit a Hyundai going east on Douglas.

The driver and passenger of that car were taken to the hospital. Both are listed in critical condition.