Truck veers off road, into home
Jason Hawk | The Chronicle-Telegram
LAGRANGE TWP. — The first day back to school was exciting for 6-year-old Tristan Lamp.
But it was nothing compared to what happened when he returned home, plopped down in front of his television to watch some cartoons – but instead watched as a Ford F-150 crashed through the wall next to his chair.
“I thought a big, huge bomb went off,” he said. “I saw a tire in the wall,”
The driver, Ted Fowler, 21, of Wellington, was charged with failure to control after crashing his truck into Tristan’s Indian Hollow Road home about 4 p.m.
Ohio Highway Patrol Trooper Christopher Aussie said Fowler was heading south and ran across a line of stopped traffic, swerving off the right side of the road to avoid causing a pile-up.
The Ford bounced through a yard about 50 yards before smashing the driver-side wheel and fender against the house just south of state Route 303.
Tristan’s father, Wade, said he was sitting on the back porch of his family’s duplex when he heard the truck hit.
“If he would have hit that concrete patio, the truck would have gone airborne and it would have killed me and my wife,” Lamp said.
The truck’s tire punched through the concrete block foundation, destroyed a boiler and broke a waterline. It also sheared off a gas line, which Lamp turned off to prevent an explosion.
LaGrange Township firefighters repaired some of the damage to the duplex so tenants — seven people from two families — wouldn’t have to evacuate.
Lamp said the firefighters installed floor jacks in the basement, and he planned to cover the four-foot hole in the wall with plywood.
The truck’s airbag didn’t deploy, Fowler wasn’t hurt, Aussie said.
Contact Jason Hawk at 329-7148 or jhawk@chroniclet.com.
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Comment from
leamull
August 27, 2008, 7:19 am
LOL….. We interrupt your cartoons to bring you this truck….. that made me laugh. Anyway, carry on.
Comment from
johnbear
August 27, 2008, 11:05 am
I can’t believe the Highway Patrol got fooled with a fake id. If they would have checked, they would have discovered this was really Mark Provenza, distinguished Law Director in the city of Lorain. I still don’t understand how he passed for 21 years old.
Comment from
me
August 27, 2008, 11:33 am
johnbear………..lol I was just thinking the same thing!! Maybe they will transfer this case to the Lorain Municipal Courts.
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