Car crashes through Durham home, driver charged with DWI

“My parents came downstairs and said ‘Courtney, someone just hit your car,’” she said. “And I’m thinking 'no way.'”

When Hill stepped outside at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, she noticed damage to the front driver’s side of her Nissan Murano.

“Before we can think, the car immediately…you hear the gas and they reversed very quickly,” she said. “I can’t even explain. And it did a turn and backed right into the house.”

The Camry, in reverse, crossed the street, went through a side yard and through a wall of a home at 4250 Amber Stone Way, Durham police said.

The car crashed into the home just a few feet from a propane tank.

Mariana Ayad Mansi Bekheit, 31, of Durham, was charged with driving while impaired and driving without insurance. She was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.

“The vehicle has been left in place until a decision can be made about how to remove the car without causing more damage to the integrity of the structure,” police said in a statement.

Hill said Bekheit wasn’t alone in the vehicle.

“I saw a woman and she was in the driver's seat,” she said. “Her eyes were closed and her head was turned. She was leaned against the seat of the car and the passenger was a black male and he looked around. Just looking around.”

No one inside the home was injured.

Hill, who was in the area visiting her parents, is angry, but thankful.

“I could have been in the car,” she said. “We could have all been in the car.”