Truck Plows Through House Before Crashing Into Pool

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- A pickup truck plowed through a Port Saint John home in the middle of the night. It caused major damage to the home and came dangerously close to taking out a family sleeping inside.

Truck Carves Hole Straight Through Home CLICK FOR LARGER PHOTO A hole that goes from the front to the back of the house is as bizarre as it is true.

"We thought it was an airplane or something dropping on the house," says David Wise.

That sound was two tons of Chevy truck burrowing a hole through Wise's front living room and the kitchen, before coming to rest in the pool in his backyard.

Florida Highway Patrol says the driver, 30-year-old Robert Todd, Jr., of Port Saint John, and a female passenger, were seriously injured.

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Sign Up To Receive Our Daily News Of The Strange Email "The driver reeked of alcohol when I talked to him," says Trooper Darryl T. Davis.

David Wise and his wife narrowly escaped injury. Sound asleep, their bed was only inches from the truck's path. In another twist of fate, the couple says they were sitting on their living room couch less than 30 minutes prior to the impact. That couch is now a mangled mess.

"I thank God for looking out for us, because we would've been dead, that's for sure," says Wise.

Trent Desrosiers lives next door. He was the first person to help the driver and his passenger get out of their totaled Chevy.

"I came through the inside. I come running through, because the water right there, where they took out the sink, was spewing up. I asked if they were all right, rear window was smashed out. He said, 'Yeah, we're fine, we're fine,'" explains Desrosiers.

FHP says, upon arrival, the female passenger was incoherent and topless, while Todd was apparently under the influence of alcohol. Blood tests are still pending and so are the damage estimates for half of a home, which is now in pieces.

FHP says that charges against the driver are still pending as they await a blood-alcohol report.