Imagine waking up from a much-needed nap to find a vehicle sitting inside your living room. In Fletcher, North Carolina, Jeanelle Selhost jumped out of her bed and ran to her living room after hearing a car slam into her house on September 12. Two vehicles, a car and a truck, crashed through a guardrail, crossed a ditch and hit the back of Selhost’s house and her neighbor’s house before coming to a stop. According to Citizen-Times.com, two high school students, Kyra Arias and Mike Sieben, remain hospitalized following the car accident. Rescuers took an hour to cut Arias out of the car.

After the accident, witnesses saw a woman running from the scene, and police found her three hours later to charge her with drunken driving, a hit and run and driving with a revoked license. Jeanelle Selhost also blames the road itself for aiding the accident. Police in the area state that cars have hit the guardrail along the sharp curve in the road at least seven times in the past 10 years, and a car hit Selhost’s house just before she moved in because of the curve. She requests a straighter road with a barrier wall to protect the neighborhood, and she points to the tire marks in her living room as proof of that need.

Though drivers should be more careful around curves in the road, the high number of accidents in that area calls for attention from the Department of Transportation, who can also take safety precautions to prevent serious accidents like this one.

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