LAUDERHILL, FLA. (WSVN) - Police believe a chain-reaction crash that left three cars badly damaged in a lawn at a Lauderhill house was sparked by road rage.
Lauderhill Police and Fire Rescue units responded to the scene near the 2300 block of Northwest 46th Avenue in Lauderhill, Monday afternoon. Three vehicles could be seen badly damaged and one had flipped over onto the lawn. A parked van was damaged in the process as well.
Police said a dark gray SUV had cut off the driver of a Hyundai sedan less than a mile away. The driver of the Hyundai got upset and followed the SUV to get a license plate number. In the process the driver who was cut off clipped the gray vehicle. That SUV then rolled over on the lawn and hit two parked vehicles before striking the Lauderhill house.
The homeowner said he and his son were home when the commotion happened.
“That’s what got me the most. I started to have flashes of this car coming in there, and my son is literally right in front there,” said homeowner Fred DaCosta, “so I could imagine the vehicle coming through there and crushing him.”
His son, Nathan DaCosta, said the impact from the crash shocked him.
“I was in my room, I was on my computer just playing games, and all of a sudden heard a huge thud,” he said. “I felt the whole house shake, and we ran outside to see what happened.”
Fortunately, the car did not end up inside of the home. However, part of the front of the structure was damaged.
“When the car flipped over, it ended up striking this wall right here,” said Nathan as he pointed out the damage. “I was in the room behind these two windows.”
A man named Ervin said he was driving the Hyundai. “I got hit, and I followed them here, and that’s when we collide,” he said.
The driver of the SUV was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. No one else was hurt.
Fred DaCosta told 7News that a painter had been scheduled to work on the front of the house where the crash ended on Monday but wasn’t able to make it.
The cars involved in the collision have since been towed away.
Both drivers were cited for careless driving.
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