A 22-year-old Mission man crashed into a residence where an 18-year-old woman was sleeping last week.
Mission RCMP said the man, who has a novice driver’s licence, is being investigated for impaired driving.
Officers were called to the house near the intersection of Dewdney Trunk Road and Ferndale Avenue at 3:19 a.m. on Thursday (Feb. 5) and found a red Honda Civic sticking halfway into the house when they arrived.
“Initial evidence suggested that the vehicle failed to stop at a three-way intersection, and drove into a house on the north side of Ferndale Avenue,” the detachment said.
Police said the driver showed signs of being impaired by liquor.He was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries but was unable to provide a breath sample at the hospital.
An officer issued a “blood demand” for medical staff to draw blood from the driver to analyze his blood-alcohol level.
The detachment said the sleeping resident was not seriously injured, “despite waking up to a car overtop of her bed.”
The mother of the 18-year-old told the Mission Record they are both staying in a hotel due to the damage at the house. She said her daughter is traumatized from the incident and the emotional damage will linger.
“It’s going to affect her for the rest of her life. She doesn’t want to drive her own vehicle … it’s really impacted our family,” she said.
The mother said she hopes the driver gets the help they need to “never do that again”. She added that the incident was shocking and still feels fake.
“When I send that picture to people, it feels like an AI image. It’s just like this thing is out of (nowhere). Now my daughter can’t walk down the street without thinking a car is going to hit her on the sidewalk,” she said.
Those with information are asked to call Mission RCMP at 604-826-7161, referencing file 26-1577.