Pennsylvania State Police said a crash on Sunday that ended with a car stuck into the roof of a house was intentional.
The one-vehicle crash happened around 3:15 p.m. on Alfrata Road in Decatur Township in Mifflin County.
Police have charged the driver 20-year-old driver Evan Miller with aggravated assault, criminal mischief and a number of related charges.
“It was determined through investigation that the crash was an intentional,” state police said in a news release.
Joan Lepley told PennLive that she was just wrapping up a visit with her cousins when, all of a sudden, she heard a tremendous crash at her home.
As the walls around them shook, with a kitchen clock falling off the wall and curtain rods falling away from windows, Lepley said, one of her relatives ran out to see what was going on, and told her “There’s a man on your roof and there’s a car on your roof.”
Lepley told PennLive that the car veered off rural Alfarata Road, crossed a neighboring pasture field, hit an embankment on her property and launched — all the way over a parked car in the driveway and smacked into a second-story bedroom, coming to rest partially on the front porch roof.
No one was hurt in the crash.
Lepley said her cousin saw Miller clamber down from the porch and start to run, but he stopped and returned to the scene when she called out to him.
“We thank the Lord that he hit the second story,” Lepley said, “because if he would have come through at the ground level, I believe my cousins and I would have been killed.”
The driver of the vehicle was transported to Geisinger Lewistown hospital, and fire crews remained on the scene for about three hours.
Miller was charged with aggravated assault — attempts to cause SBI or caused injury with extreme indifference; criminal mischief — damage property; recklessly endangering another person; harassment — subject other to physical contact; careless driving; reckless driving and disregard traffic lane (single).
Lepley, 67, said she is staying with a sister while the damage to her home can be assessed and repaired.
But she knows she’ll get back in the home eventually.
