JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Police are investigating after a chain-reaction crash Tuesday led to one car crashing into a house on Post Street.
The driver, whose name has not been released, was taken to a hospital but the extent of his injuries were not known.
A pregnant woman who was headed to work down Post Street said the driver, who was coming in the opposite direction, bumped her car head-on and then hit the gas, ramming into her and forcing the back of her car to hit a railroad crossing arm at McDuff Avenue and Post Street.
"I was really grateful that the front of the car wasn't crushed honestly," Pierce Elliott said. "The first thing I thought was, 'Did I hit the steering wheel?' When I got out of the car, I was just checking to make sure I didn't have any stomach cramps or anything like that. It was really nerve-wracking. And then I called my husband up here immediately, because I was nervous."
Elliott said she's thankful for the many witnesses who stopped and tried to help her and stayed with her until police arrived.
Elliott said the driver sped down Post Street, wiping out a speed limit sign and hitting a JEA pole outside a white house before the car sideswiped a tree and then hit the house.
A man living in the house said he was watching TV when the car hit the home. He said bricks surrounding a garden outside the home stopped the car from going into the living room where he was sitting.
He said the driver was conscious when he was being helped by rescue workers, but he was screaming about back and leg pain.