MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. (WSVN) - An air rescue helicopter has airlifted a man to the hospital after a rollover crash in Miami Gardens.
Miami Gardens Police and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units were dispatched to the scene along the 900 block of Northwest 179th Street, just after 5 p.m., Wednesday.
According to fire officials, a caller told them that a car had rolled over, hit a house and caught fire.
An air rescue helicopter was dispatched to the scene and landed at a nearby field.
The helicopter then took off and flew the injured man, who police said was in his 20s, to Jackson Memorial Hospital in unknown condition.
7News has learned that a white Kia SUV was traveling along Ninth Avenue when it barreled down a stop sign, hit the homeowner’s parked Honda Accord sedan and crashed into the home’s front door.
Police said the airlifted victim was the only person inside of the SUV.
A 7News source said the victim suffered no broken bones, is doing better than initially expected and will make a full recovery.
Rogers Harrell Jr. said his 66-year-old father, Rogers Harrell, was sitting near the front of the home just before the crash happened.
“Well, my dad, he was sitting in the living room three minutes before it happened,” Harrell Jr. said. “He got up to go to the kitchen, and he said the next thing he heard was a loud boom. He looked outside, and that’s what he saw.”
Harrell said he sits in the living room every night around dinnertime to read the newspaper on his couch. However, Wednesday night, he wanted to go to the den and watch television.
“So I sat down, I was eating the food, and the next thing I know, I head a loud bang,” Harrell said.
7SkyForce HD captured a white Kia SUV upside down resting against the front door of the home.
“I heard somebody knocking the window, and so that’s when they broke out the window,” Harrell said. “I just shook my head. Couldn’t believe it.”
“He said the guy that was in the car, they thought he was dead at first, but he said that he started banging on the window, so my dad is a little shooken up, but it’s not surprising that this happened,” Harrell Jr. said. “It’s like the third accident to happen on this block.”
Harrell said there’s a reason he parks his car directly in front of his home and not in the driveway.
“Because I don’t want anybody come through my living room,” he said, “and it still almost happened.”
Aerial footage showed tire marks imprinted on the home’s front yard.
7News cameras captured the homeowner’s damaged front door and a parked Honda Accord sedan.
A piece of plywood could be seen covering the hole in the family’s home.
The Harrell family said they are happy to be home in one piece, even if there’s a hole in it.
“He’s just a little bit shaken up, but it could have been worse,” Harrell Jr. said.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
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