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SUV meets townhouse
Teen crashes car into Waldorf home
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
 Click here to enlarge this photo Staff photo by GRETCHEN PHILLIPS
Property owner Charles Wineland assesses damages to his townhouse after a sport utility vehicle drove through the front door Tuesday morning.
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A Ford Explorer knocked over two mail box units and drove into the front of a townhouse in Waldorf early Tuesday morning.
According to Diane Richardson, spokeswoman for the Charles County Sheriff's Office, a 17-year-old boy told police he was driving in the 3600 block of Kimpsford Field Place when he swerved to avoid another car that pulled out in front of him.
The driver then lost control of the SUV. After hitting some mail boxes, the driver jumped a curb and struck a nearby townhouse.
According to Richardson, the SUV "took out the staircase leading upstairs."
Three residents, a 34 year-old woman and two children, were upstairs in the house when the crash occurred.
Richardson said no one was injured.
Property owner Charles Wineland said it is fortunate his tenants were upstairs due to the severe damage to the front of the house and the amount of shattered glass throughout the main level of the house.
Richardson said charges are pending.
"I don't know how they are going to get in and out to get their stuff out," Wineland said of the amount of damage to the front of his property while looking inside.
The landlord assessed the property before workers boarded it up.
The construction crew was able to stabilize the stairs so that Wineland and the tenants had access.
Wineland said he is currently working with the insurance company to figure out what to do next and what will happen with the tenants.
In the 20 years Wineland has rented property, he said he has never seen anything like this.
