Mother, kids narrowly escape injury after vehicle crashes into rural home
Young children and their mother narrowly avoided serious injury Thursday after a vehicle left a nearby highway and embedded itself into their rural home near Coaldale.
A female driver in her ‘70s suffered non-life-threatening injuries when her 2005 Pontiac Vibe travelling eastbound on Hwy. 512 veered off the road, went through a ditch and some trees before striking a house near Readymade, about 220 km southeast of Calgary.
The vehicle hit the house with such great force, it became wedged into the building ’s northwest corner and also damaged a porch.
A child’s bedroom was most heavily damaged but the mother and her children were in home’s southern portion at the time of the crash and weren’t injured.
The driver was trapped in the vehicle and had to be freed by members of the Coaldale Fire Department.
She was taken to Chinook Regional Hospital for treatment and remains there.
Her vehicle was removed from the house later in the day, while the home’s structural integrity was assessed and provided supports.
An investigation is continuing with no charges yet laid.
Police are asking anyone who may have witnessed the crash or seen the Vibe’s previous driving patterns to call Coaldale RCMP at 403-329-5080 or 403-345-5552.