One of the last things you expect when sitting in your own home is for a vehicle to go off the road and hit your house. That’s exactly what happened early Sunday morning, when an allegedly intoxicated driver lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a house in New York State. it didn’t stop there. Before finishing, this 60-year-old driver ended up crashing his vehicle into a nearby body of water, in addition to accumulating a number of charges according to the police.

WHAM says the man failed to navigate an intersection and left the road early Sunday morning. From there, he crashed into a house in Edgemere before half-submerging his vehicle in a water channel. First responders managed to get the man out of the vehicle safely. But while the suspect was uninjured in the crash, he now faces charges including drunk driving as a designated offense for a previous conviction within 10 years and operating without a license aggravated.

It is not known if anyone was in the house or if the structure suffered serious damage.

Cars hitting houses

A somewhat similar case occurred about a year ago when another vehicle left the road and hit a house. WHAM reports that the suspected drunk driver left the road and hit two parked cars in the town of Clarkson one night in April 2021. The driver’s off-road adventure then ended when he and the vehicle he was driving crashed into a nearby house. . WHAM reports that the impact even caused a gas leak after a gas meter was damaged following the crash. The driver was slightly injured, police said. It is not known if anyone was in the house at the time of the accident.