'We thought maybe it was an earthquake': Car crashes into a home in Ottawa's south end
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Emergency crews responded to a call just before 7 a.m. Friday about a car crashing into the back of a home on Cotters Crescent, off Uplands Drive.
It was a dramatic wakeup call for a family living in Ottawa's south end, when a car crashes into the back of the home.
"It was a really loud crash," Stacey Smith said about the damage to her home on Cotters Crescent Friday morning. "At first, we thought maybe it was an earthquake, and then my uncle started yelling, "There's a car in the living room."
Emergency crews responded to a call just before 7 a.m. Friday about a car slamming into the back of a home on Cotters Crescent, off Uplands Drive.
Ottawa fire spokesperson Nick DeFazio says the driver of the vehicle was travelling along Uplands Drive when the car crashed through a fence and struck the back of the home.
"It looks like the car came right through blew through the foliage that was here, the fence, lilac trees and straight into the living room," Smith said.
There were five people inside the home at the time of the crash.
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