Repairs slow-going after truck crashes into southwest Charlotte home, owners say

CHARLOTTE — A truck went into a home in southwest Charlotte after 9 p.m. on Oct. 20 and said two weeks later that getting the damage repaired has been slow.

“We have not been able to successfully retrieve a police report,” homeowner Darrius Sellars said.

Channel 9′s Jonathan Lowe saw the truck and a large hole in the front of the home that night on Monroe Road near Mason Wallace Park. No one was hurt in the crash.

“I would have been smashed between the grill of an F-350,” Sellars said.

Lowe saw tracks going from Monroe Road, over the sidewalk, across the yard and into the brick home.

A truck hauling a trailer loaded with a Bobcat mini tractor hit a car before running off the road.

Bricks could be seen scattered across the yard of the home.

Sellars said he was in the kitchen when he heard tires screech and the truck came barreling in.

“I’m standing maybe a foot away,” Sellars told Channel 9. “Once the crash was over, I opened the window and I asked the driver if he was ok. He is in a pickup truck in my kitchen and I’m like inside my house having a conversation with the man.”

Sellars estimated damage could be north of $100,000.

The damage has gotten worse since the crash.

“Since the accident, the water heater has been leaking into the crawl space,” he said. “These cracks are starting to spread and on the inside of the house. The house is starting to sink.”

The driver is not the only one who should be held accountable, his wife Brittany Sellars said.

“And I think that the city should look at doing some things in this area to make it more walkable and more safe,” she said.

The truck was towed from the home around 11 p.m.

Traffic did not appear to be interrupted on Monroe Road.

This is a developing story. Check wsoctv.com for updates.

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