So last night at about 8:00, I was cleaning the bathroom in our bedroom when I heard a loud crash and some car alarms going off out in the parking lot. I had no idea what happened so went out in the living room to ask my husband about it. He had no idea and didn’t really seem to care. So I went back in the bedroom, but decided to peek out between the blinds before heading back to my cleaning There were people standing around all over the place and somebody’s car alarm was going off. I figured maybe someone backed into a car under the covered parking and that was it. I went back out to the living room to tell my husband and he then looked out the window. He could see that one of the beams holding up the roof to the covered parking was bent in half and that the roof itself was all mangled. He went out to investigate. I wasn’t exactly dressed for public or I’d have gone out with him.

When he came back in, he said, “You’re never going to believe this.” I asked him what had happened. He then told me that a car had come through the fence from the outside and hit the covered parking structure along with three cars that were parked there – a brand new truck, a BMW and some other truck. What the heck? I had to get dressed so I could go check it out.

By then, there were tons of people outside and more people investigating the situation from their balconies. As you can tell, not much happens around here so we all wanted to know what was going on.

There were two oil field workers sitting on the hill on the other side of the covered parking, away from the scene. There was also a gaping hole in the fence and debris (wood and glass) all over the parking lot. Their car had come from the highway, sped through a humongous field, through some shrubs, up a bank, through the fence, into three cars and one of the beams holding up the covered parking area. We were in disbelief. I had to draw up a diagram so you can see just how ridiculous this whole thing was because words can’t even explain it. The red line is where (I assume) the car came from. To give you some distance perspective, this covered parking area, although it looks small here, fits about 10 cars across. I also forgot to label the fence, but it’s the black line.

How does this even happen? I could see if it happened up near the entrance of the apartment complex because that’s obviously where you come in from the highway, but how in the hell do you make it from the highway the whole way to the back of the apartment complex? And how fast were you going that a grassy field filled with shrubs and trees didn’t slow you down enough before you blasted through a fence and into three cars? What if somebody had been out there? There’s no way they would have survived.

The poor guy with the new truck had just bought the thing a few weeks ago and it was pretty much totaled. The entire back end was smashed and there were shrubs pushed up underneath it from the car that came speeding through the field. The poor BMW was smashed in between this truck and another truck and whoever owned it mustn’t have been home. Luckily, the third truck didn’t have much damage, if any, but the whole thing was completely crazy.

It wasn’t until we went to bed a few hours later when all the police, ambulances, fire trucks and tow trucks finally left.

I honestly don’t even know how the two who were driving that car made it out alive. I can only think of one of two things that possibly happened. Either one passed out and had his foot on the gas or they were drunk. Even if they’d swerved off the road from texting, talking on the phone or otherwise being distracted, there’s absolutely no way they would have made it that far through the field. I can’t figure this one out and would be very interested to hear what exactly happened. Nuts.

Had these guys came through the field at a slightly different angle, they would have been in our bedroom or living room. Kind of scary to think about, especially since Robert’s crib is on the outside wall of our bedroom.