Two families were displaced from their homes at an Oxnard public housing complex after a car slammed into the side of the building Tuesday, authorities said.
A car traveling down Bismark Way toward the road’s dead end at Concord Drive drove straight into the two-story, four-unit complex at 11:56 a.m., said Battalion Chief Mike O’Malia of the Oxnard Fire Department.
The vehicle plowed through the wall of one of the complex’s units and ended up in the home’s living room.
The five family members who live in the residence were not home at the time, and no one in the housing complex was injured, authorities said.
The driver, Ethel Brousseau, 85, of Port Hueneme, and a 70-year-old female passenger from Oxnard were taken to St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said.
Oxnard police said they were still investigating the accident late Tuesday, but it appears the driver was trying to stop at a stop sign when she hit the gas pedal instead of the brakes, sending the vehicle over a curb and into the building.
Oxnard Fire Department investigators estimated damage to the complex at $500,000.
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