Man smashes car into home

Suspect had fled traffic stop moments earlier, police say

Adele Fisher was sound asleep inside her Pembroke Pines home early Wednesday — until an expensive luxury automobile came crashing through a front bedroom and closet that she uses as storage space.

“I was sleeping and all of a sudden there’s banging on the window, there’s lights shining, flashlights shining, and they’re trying to get me up and I’m saying to myself, ‘who’s trying to break into the house?’ ”

Turns out nobody was breaking into Fisher’s home along the 7000 block of Southwest Sixth Street when she roused out of bed about 2:20 a.m.

Instead, Pembroke Pines police say a Hollywood man driving a black MercedesBenz sedan had fled from a traffic stop moments earlier — and ended up crashing into Fisher’s house.

Bradford Michael Crayton, 29, was stopped by an officer along the 6300 block of Pembroke Road for a speeding infraction, police said. When he fled from the traffic stop, he wasn’t pursued, Pembroke Pines Police Capt. Scott Carris said.

After the crash, Crayton was taken into custody and later booked into Broward’s jail on charges that include reckless driving, fleeing and leaving the scene of a crash, records show.

A passenger who was in the car with Crayton was taken to a hospital to be treated for minor injuries but is not being

charged.

The Mercedes-Benz, festooned with greenery from the bushes surrounding the home and its front heavily damaged from the crash, was pulled out of Fisher’s home, put aboard a flat-bed truck and towed from the scene.

Inside the home’s front bedroom, broken furniture, clothing and other debris were strewn about, making it impossible to walk without tripping.

Fisher was exasperated but unhurt from the ordeal.

“Thank God our bedroom was in the back,” she said.

Fisher was not able to remain in her home Wednesday and was unsure when she would be able to return.

RELIABLE NEWS MEDIA/COURTESY Pembroke Pines police say a man who fled from a traffic stop crashed into a home along the 7000 block of Southwest Sixth Street on Wednesday.