MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. – A 9-year-old girl is in stable condition after a car crashed into her bedroom in a Macomb County home.
The incident occurred on Monday (Oct. 15) early in the morning.
The girl was sleeping in bed inside a home just south of 10 Mile Road and east of Van Dyke Avenue when the vehicle smashed through the wall and into her room.
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Neighbors heard the loud crash just before 3 a.m. and rushed outside to find the scene.
One neighbor said the woman driving the car ran off on foot after the crash and nearly ran into him while fleeing.
The SUV ended up inside the child’s bedroom, and the impact was so severe that the girl and her bed were thrown out of the room and into the yard.
Center Line police reported the girl suffered multiple injuries, including to her spine, nose, and a laceration to her liver.
A relative started a GoFundMe page to support her recovery.
In the adjacent bedroom, a baby was sleeping in a crib.
Police said the driver missed hitting the infant by just four feet.
The 20-year-old driver was located a short distance away after at least one neighbor chased her.
She has been booked into the Macomb County Jail.
Investigators are awaiting toxicology results to determine if drugs or alcohol contributed to the crash.
At 2:54 this morning, a car going down mccarthy at a high rate of speed, hit the curb, jumped it and went into the home – hit the side wall and the back wall hit a bedroom where a 9-year-old child was sleeping in.
Hit the bed and the child, blew threw the window casing was thrown out of the house Ended up in the lawn.
She’s in stable condition with spinal injuries, pelvis injuries, cracked ribs, bedroom next to it was an infant bedroom, about about four feet from the crib to the hole in the wall.
The driver ran away on foot, was apprehended a short distance away. A 20 year old, female driver at the macomb county jail, blood tests for toxicology are pending."
Center Line Director of Police Paul Myszenski