PERRYSBURG, Ohio – The sound of fast cars is nothing new to Jon Sicotte and his family. The family lives in Perrysburg in a house adjacent to I-75. A sound barrier helps with the noise but doesn’t completely drown it out.
Sunday morning around 7am, the family woke up to what sounded like thunder.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol he told Sicotte that it was actually something much scarier.
OSHP says a car was traveling nearly a hundred miles per hour on I-75 when the driver lost control and crashed into the sound barrier.
“We finally looked out the window and I could see the wall. There was smoke, so I immediately went outside to see what was going on,” Sicotte said.
The impact was so catastrophic that it sent the car’s engine and several other parts of the vehicle and the wall into Sicotte’s yard.
He says part of his backyard got soaked in oil and caught fire and he spent most of Sunday picking up the debris.
“We’ve heard semi-truck tires hit the wall before. We’ve lost a few handles from hitting things. But never to this magnitude,” Sicotte said. “It’s crazy. I’ve always wanted to know what was going on. on I-75, and now I can see it.”
Sicotte admits that his family is quite shaken after the accident and that it is close to being much worse.
“I’m lucky our family was inside the house,” he said. “This happened early enough that no one was outside because obviously this could have happened during the day. It could have been a lot more disastrous,” Sicotte said.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol says the driver was taken to the hospital. There is no update on his status.
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