Vehicle struck one house, got stuck in another on Raleigh's New Hope Road

An ambulance and rescue crews were called to extract the driver, who was pinned inside the vehicle.

Chief Lee Price of the Wake New Hope Fire Department said the vehicle, which appeared to be a white pickup truck, came to a stop with the dashboard lodged in a bathroom of the home. No one inside the home was injured, Price said.

Crews extracted the crushed vehicle from the home in about two hours, leaving behind a gaping hole in the foundation.

Price said an inspection would be necessary to determine if there was structural damage to the home.

"I heard a ka-boom!" he said. "It's horrendous."

The location of Thursday's crash, at 2831 N. Hew Hope Road, is about a mile south of a curve on that same road that saw so many accidents that the City of Raleigh built in guardrails and closed off access to a neighborhood.

At the intersection of New Hope and Fawn Glen, residents saw damage and deaths when drivers, taking the curve too fast, were unable to stay on the road. Over the years, drivers slammed into the stone entrance wall of the neighborhood, shattered windows of the home on the corner and drove skid marks through the yard.

2016: Homeowner, city seek solutions after 6 cars crash into Raleigh home

By 2016, Bernarte counted six times that vehicles had hit his home. According to the state Department of Transportation, 20 crashes have occurred over 14 years at the location, and 17 of those crashes involved drivers who were speeding or impaired.

Over time, the city and DOT extended an existing guardrail and added reflective markers on the pavement and speed-activated LED arrows to the turn. Still the crashes continued.