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Sleepy Driver Crashes Into House, Cops Say

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Tom Sofield

A driver feel asleep at the wheel and struck a house in the Levittown section of Middletown Township Tuesday afternoon, police said.

First reponders outside a Highland Park home that was struck by a car Tuesday afternoon. Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
First responders outside a Highland Park home that was struck by a car Tuesday afternoon.
Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com

The driver, a 19-year-old Levittown man, was on his way home from work when he feel asleep behind the wheel of a white Buick as he went downhill on Hardy Road, Officer Michael Stum said. When the young man awoke, he was surrounded by wreckage inside a home in the 40 block of Highland Park Road, the accident investigator told LevittownNow.com.

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No one was injured in the crash, Stum said. He added that a dog inside the home was fine.

Stum said the house suffered “extensive” damage on the inside. Township building inspectors were called to the scene.

Neighbors said the home was recently renovated.

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Emergency crews were dispatched for the crash moments before 4 p.m.

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No injuries were reported, police said. Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
No injuries were reported, police said.
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A group of small dogs park at emergency officials Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
A group of small dogs park at emergency officials
Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
A EMS squad member looks at the damage. Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
A EMS squad member looks at the damage.
Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com

 

Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield has covered news in Bucks County for 16 years for both newspaper and online publications. Tom’s reporting has appeared locally, nationally, and internationally across several mediums. He is proud to report on news in the county where he lives and to have created a reliable publication that the community deserves.