Firefighters from the Sonoma Valley Fire and Rescue Authority interview the owner of a home struck by a pickup truck Friday afternoon.
Photo by Ryan Lely
An 18-year-old Sonoma woman was shaken but apparently unhurt after she drove her Ford pickup truck into the corner of a Sonoma home shortly after noon Friday.
“She just lost control, goes up on the curb, through the fence, doesn’t even hit the tree – just boom, man,” said neighbor Dan Coccia. “The wheels were still spinning the entire time it was going on.”
The woman was heading northbound in Fifth Street East’s 700 block when she struck a line of three vehicles parked in front of a garage sale at the house next door. Eyewitnesses said the truck then accelerated, bounced off the back of another Ford pickup truck, through a white picket fence, narrowly missed a large oak tree and smashed into the corner of a garage, deploying the driver’s side.
Two fire engines and an ambulance initially responded, with the ambulance being cancelled before arriving on scene. Concerned neighbors and garage-sale browsers lined both sides of Fifth Street East as firefighters and police interviewed witnesses and homeowners. The driver could be seen sitting on a chair on a sidewalk as a neighbor comforted her.
In all, six vehicles were damaged including the driver’s truck and a BMW inside the garage. Police later said the woman, who was not cited, had apparently been distracted while driving.
