At 7:40 this beautiful Mothers Day my neighbor next to my office calls and tells me the building has been hit by a drunk driver.

 

So my wife and I get dressed and hurry over to the office where we see where this guy was luck he was not killed.

 

You can see the skid marks on the neighbor's front yard and that the car missed two trees by a foot and flew over a stump that had a tree on it three months ago.

 

He hit the neighbor's yard, went airborne, flew over the driveway and into my office's front yard, hit the end of the porch and spun the car around 180 degrees about 15 feet from the building.

 

The police officers on the scene told me that when they went to his house to talk to him about how his car ended up by my office and how come he left the scene of an accident, he answered the door drunk, bleeding from fresh cuts and had bruises on his face. Of course, he told the officers his car was stolen. The guy is 30-years old and drunk at 7:40Am on Mothers Day.

 

He is now in the Chesterfield County jail sobering up and his car is at a towing company's lot.

 

Fortunate for him that he was not seriously injured.

 

I am trying to contact the officer in charge of the investigation so I can get this guy's auto  insurance information. I will be calling three contractors tomorrow to have them come out and survey the damage and give me an estimate for all outside damages and any we can find inside the building.

 

Oh well, another day in Paradise!

 

 

Glad no one innocent was hurt. That is the case most often around here. Hopefully its a rude awakening for this guy.

Good luck on that insurance.

A drunk driver early am and leaving the scene spells no insurance also. 

Sam, Back around 1992-93 I had a drunk attempt to drive thru my house. Had he succeeded the car would have ended up in bed with my ex wife and I. It was a Sunday morning around 6:00. We are woke up by what sounds like a bomb, and my house shaking. I jump out of bed and look out the window and no more than 2ft below me is a Chevy Cavalier and a pile of bricks. I recognized the guy in the passenger seat at the homeless guy who slept in the hallway of the apartment building I lived in prior to buying the house.  My son who was 2 or 3 at the time was screaming bloody murder as my self and the wife ran outside. This guy backs up and drives away, radiator smoking, down the sidewalk hitting no less than 2 cars before getting back on the road. The front bumper with license plate is in the pile of bricks. Cops show up and after running the plate knew exactly who the guy was. A repeat offender and apparently a troublemaker. They found him slumped over the steering wheel in front of his apartment, passed out drunk. No drivers license, no insurance, and possibly an illegal alien. He never shows to court, probably back in Mexico. My homeowners insurance covered it to the tune of 40k. I lived on a corner lot in a raised ranch. He fit between my car and a 30ft pine in the front yard. The only reason he didn't kill us is the ground outside sat about 2ft below the floor or the house and most of the damage was to the wall of the basement. Had the ground been level with the floor, I would not be writing this and my son would have grown up without parents. Funny how things work.

 

Best of luck.   

Over the past 10 years my office building has been hit 3 times. The building sits right behind a hwy off ramp and each time the vehicle that hit the building was exiting the hwy and going way over the speed limit, and became airborne.

Sam,

Give the officers a couple of days and they should be able to get what you need. Make sure to ask for a copy of the accident report. At times they may be 5-10 bucks.

I would think this accident is covered under the building's insurance policy.