A Georgia family were home on Wednesday enjoying a snow day together when an out-of-control SUV came crashing into their house.
The Madgett family said when they heard a deafening crash outside their Stone Mountain house in DeKalb County, they initially thought a tree fell.
When they went outside to see what was going on, they saw that a vehicle with New York license plates had slammed into their garage.
An out-of-control SUV smashed into this garage belonging to the Madgett family in Stone Mountain, Georgia, after sliding on some ice
The collision left a gaping hole in the building and scattered debris in the yard.
Mother-of-two Shawn Madgett told WSB-TV her family are fortunate that no one was injured, thanks to their cars that were parked in the garage.
The vehicles absorbed the impact and stopped the runaway SUV from crashing through the wall into the kitchen, where the parents and their two daughters, who were home from school because of the bad weather, were sitting at the time.
Before destroying the garage, the runaway vehicle slid down this hill along Gateway Boulevard, hitting parked cars, a water main, a light pole and a transformer
‘I was really scared,’ Shawn’s daughter Korie Madgett told the station.
According to DeKalb County police, the driver of the SUV slid on a patch of ice, careened into a power transformer, hit several parked cars, followed by a water main and a light pole.
The out-of-state vehicle continued sliding down the hill on Gateway Boulevard and came to a stop only after smashing into the Madgett family’s garage.
‘Our cars are damaged and our walls are damaged, but at least everybody is safe,’ said Mrs Madgett.
The driver of the SUV came away from the crash with a swollen lip and refused medical treatment.