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Car Into House

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Speeding Car Crashes into Woodbridge House

A car slammed into a house on Old Road, not far from Matthew Jago School, Friday morning.

A car that officials said was apparently speeding in the Port Reading-Sewaren section of Woodbridge yesterday went out of control and struck a home on that street, according to a report on abclocal.com. The accident happened at approximately 11 am on Friday, February 1, said Ana Velez, who lives nearby and who is friends with the woman who owns the home struck by the automobile. The driver was issued a summons for excessive speeding, abclocal.com said. The automobile had two passengers, but neither was hurt, nor was anyone in the house struck by the car injured. "No one was hurt, but my neighbor [in this house was shaken by it because she said if she would have been in the house she could [have] been dead," Velez posted on Woodbridge …

Karen

6:13 pm on Saturday, February 2, 2013

There is only ONE WAY you are ever going to get cars to permanently slow down on Old Road, and that is to put in some kind of physical impediment like speed bumps, or a stop sign somewhere in the middle. This road is by its nature a tragedy waiting to happen. This is an older, narrow street with lots of parked cars, and houses right up near the road. Part of it is a school zone. Many of the …   more ›

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