Car crashes into a home after police chase in Ohio

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — An Ohio antheral is present dealing with important harm to his location aft a constabulary pursuit ended successful a clang with the car lodged wrong his kitchen.

It happened aboriginal connected Friday greeting successful Cleveland Heights astatine South Taylor Road and Fairmount Boulevard.

John Gall said helium was sleeping wrong his location erstwhile a car came crashing done his ceramic bungalow conscionable aft midnight connected Friday morning.

"There was a car successful my room and constabulary with guns swarming astir the house," Gall said. "I stuck my caput retired the breached beforehand model and said, 'Please don't sprout me, I'm the homeowner.'"

Gall said Cleveland Heights Police officers connected the country told him they were chasing the operator connected South Taylor Road close earlier the operator crashed.

"I recognize pursuits. I'm not definite I recognize 85 miles an hr coming down Taylor roadworthy here," helium said.

Gall said helium ne'er saw the operator but added helium witnessed the idiosyncratic being taken distant successful an ambulance.

Todd Freeman lives adjacent door. He said car accidents astatine this intersection are truthful communal that helium wasn't amazed erstwhile helium came extracurricular to spot what happened.

"I was dependable asleep. As soon arsenic I heard the hit, I knew that 1 of the 2 houses had been deed by a car. I mean, I knew the dependable good by now," Freeman said.

This is not the archetypal clip Gall's spot has been damaged by accidents.

In 2012, WEWS covered a clang astatine his location wherever his motortruck was deed by a vehicle.

Gall said since then. He has been proactive astir getting much protective guarding astatine the intersection to forestall harm to his home. But, Gall said, his requests to metropolis hallway person been denied.

"I talked to City Hall astir it successful the past, and they assertion that the putting up of a guardrail, which would've astir apt prevented a bulk of this, was unaesthetic and not pleasing to the neighborhood, truthful they rejected that," helium said. "I'm going to person to question much drastic measures successful the future, I think. I'm not definite what that volition be, but they volition find out."

News 5 reached retired to the metropolis to spot what it would instrumentality to get a defender obstruction successful beforehand of a home, and they said they would respond adjacent week.

Daylight photos amusement much of the harm caused by the crash.

The room is destroyed.

Cleveland Heights Police told WEWS that the clang began aft an serviceman attempted to marque a postulation stop.

The operator of the car was taken to the infirmary and is successful custody.

Meg Shaw astatine WEWS archetypal reported this story.