Car Hits Anderson County Home, Trapped Man Rescued.

Date: 06/19/2012
Time: Around 11:30 P.M.
Location: Anderson, South Carolina
Vehicle(s) Involved: Honda Accord

By WSPA Staff

"ANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. --
Three people were taken to a hospital when a car hit a home in Anderson County Tuesday night.
Anderson County Fire Chief Billy Gibson says the call came in from 2308 Rolling Green Road around 11:30 Monday night, reporting that a car had struck a house and two people were trapped inside.
Firefighters arrived on scene and found a man trapped underneath the car.
They began administering aid to the victims, but their biggest concern was getting the patients out without a collapse due to the structural damage to the house. They called in Anderson County Technical Rescue to shore up the building.
 “Our major concern is always the safety of our responders, so we don’t want them going into an environment that could become dangerous and that was one of our main concerns…we didn’t know how badly the damage was to the structure of the house. So getting them in there and shoring it up and make sure it was structurally sound so we could get the patient out", said Chief Gibson.
They were able to extricate him and he was transported to Anderson Area Medical Center.
Beth Sharp lives across the street and has been friends with the couple for 30 years. She was going to bed and heard screeching tires and then a crash. She went out and saw the car inside the house.
Sharp said, ”She (the victim's wife) was trying to rip away the wall and stuff  and the car was jammed up into the living room and she kept saying…my husband, my husband, he’s in here, I’ve got to get him out".
Chief Gibson says it appears that a female driver of a Honda was backing out of a driveway across the street and at some point lost control.
She backed across the road, through the yard and into the house. The man who was trapped under the car was asleep on the couch when the car struck.
The driver was transported along with the two people inside the home.
Captain Bruce Spigener of the Broadway Fire Department was one of the first responders on the scene.
"It could've been a lot worse, but luckily it was not for him or for us," he said.
Chief David Burnette of the Broadway Fire Department says it's a miracle the man survived.
"It's just amazing the way the car come in there and he ended up in the right spot not to get hurt any worse than he was," said Burnette. "Yeah, I definitely say he had a couple angels with him last night.""

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