Woman Loses Control, Crashes Into Tarpey Village Home on Ashlan Avenue

A car plowed into a home on Ashlan Avenue just west of Marks in Tarpey Village on Monday afternoon, hospitalizing two people who were inside the vehicle. No one inside the residence was hurt, according to investigators, who said they are still working to determine what caused the car to veer off the road and into the structure.

The crash caused substantial damage to the home. Investigators said they have not yet indicated whether drugs or alcohol played a role, and the examination of the scene and vehicle was continuing as of Monday evening.

The Fresno Fire Department responded and pulled a white sedan from what CBS 47 Eyewitness News reporter Briana Bayas described as a child's bedroom. The homeowner, who was inside the house when the car came through, was too shaken to speak on camera but told Bayas it was a terrifying moment. Her most pressing relief: her kids were not home when it happened.

Neighbor Erinda, who lives in a connected unit and asked not to have her face on camera, said her son came running in to tell her what had occurred. "Mom, a car crashed into our neighbor," he told her. "And I was like, 'Oh my god,'" Erinda said. "And I just was thinking about her kids cuz she has kids." Erinda added that crashes along West Ashlan are not unusual. "Like, a lot of this stuff happens right here. There's a lot of car accidents right here," she said, as the sound of a driver laying on a horn could be heard in the background.

The crash on Ashlan Avenue was among several vehicle-into-structure incidents reported in Fresno around the same period. Earlier Friday, just before 1:30 a.m., a woman in her 20s struck a power pole and then crashed into a home at Fresno Street and University Avenue in central Fresno, according to ABC30. Crews extricated her and took her to a hospital, where her condition remained unknown. PG&E worked to restore power to more than 200 residents in the area bounded by Clinton and McKinley avenues and Blackstone and Angus avenues following that crash.

Also on Friday, around 6 p.m., a car drove completely through a home near Maple and Behymer avenues, entering through the front and exiting through the rear, according to KMPH. Two residents inside the home, one in the kitchen and one in the living room, were unharmed. "The driver and residents survived, reporting only minor bumps and scrapes," the Fresno Fire Department said. The female driver told police she had no explanation for what happened. "Just all of a sudden the car started bouncing and bumping around," she said. Tow trucks could not remove the car from the backyard without causing further damage to the home, so a crane was called in.

On the Ashlan Avenue crash specifically, investigators said the cause remains under examination and no charges had been announced.