EMS crews are used to extracting drivers from Toyota Corollas. This was something new, because it was hanging out the second story wall of a house. Police investigators were even more surprised to find out the stunt may have been intentional.
Toyota in the bedroom
Pennsylvania’s Decatur Township Police weren’t expecting to get a call about a Toyota crash in the second floor bedroom, but they did, on Sunday afternoon, August 6.
The cops are still trying to figure out what to charge 20-year-old Evan Miller with. They aren’t even sure exactly how he did it but they think he did it on purpose.
Officials with the Junction Fire Company say their crews don’t ask questions in a situation like that, they simply perform the rescue.
Evan Miller, 20, is facing potential charges after 'intentionally' driving his car into a Pennsylvania home.
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They got called out around 3:15 p.m. and “found the Toyota Corolla stuck on the roof and through a dormer.” That’s the sort of thing which usually happens after the bars close.
Fire crews couldn’t resist sharing snapshots they took from the scene. After they got Mr. Miller extricated from the car and cuffed into a cruiser, they made sure to get photos of the gaping hole.
Once they got the Toyota on the ground, they took a bunch of it, too. Miller went to the local ER for treatment.
Driving fast or flying low
If Miller planned to launch his Toyota airborne into a house on purpose, he must have really been paying attention in physics class. Since Decatur Township, in Clearfield County, is smack in the middle of Pennsylvania and middle of nowhere at the same time, there can’t be a lot of recreation opportunities around.
While they aren’t spelling out the details, “police said its investigators believe the crash was not an accident.” He may have been aiming for the living room.
Miller allegedly “first crashed into a ditch before launching his vehicle through the air and into the side of the home.” It’s separately reported that “the car likely hit a small culvert next to the home’s driveway which launched it through the air.”
He started out driving his Toyota really fast, until it took off flying low, right into the plaid wallpaper covered bedroom on the second floor.
Police aren’t saying if the homeowners knew Miller or what makes them think the act was intentional. After they used heavy equipment to extract the Toyota, emergency crews “stabilized the building so that it wouldn’t collapse further.”
They also “helped the homeowners place a tarp over the hole to prepare for incoming storms.” Nobody inside was harmed.
