Crime & Safety

Car Crushes Front of House

A Kennesaw mom pressed the accelerator instead of the brake after bumping her teen son, the AJC reports.

The front of a Bramford Way house is boarded up this morning after a car smashed into it about 8 p.m. Tuesday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

Citing Cobb County fire spokeswoman Denell Boyd, the AJC says a 51-year-old woman was backing out of her driveway across the street when she hit her 16-year-old son, who was trying to guide her. Upset at hitting the teen, the woman mistakenly slammed the accelerator instead of the brake and shot across the residential street and into the house at 326 Bramford Way.

The crash destroyed the bay window on the right front of the house.

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The driver was not hurt, and no one was home in the damaged house, the AJC reports. The 16-year-old was bumped and bruised and was taken to to be safe.

Bramford Way is in the Cloister at Bells Ferry development about half a mile west of Interstate 575 off Bells Ferry Road.

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Sue Chang owned the damaged house as of 2010, Cobb County Assessor's Office records show. The structure's value was appraised at $115,770 last year.


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