Video in Palmetto Bay on Christmas Eve captured the moments when the driver of a Corvette slammed into a home.
The crash happened at around 5 p.m. on Wednesday at the home along Southwest 174th Street and 88th Court.
In the video, the Corvette’s engine was heard revving and its tires screeching before it crashed through a yard.
NBC6 spoke to the homeowner who dealt with the frightening ordeal.
“He runs the stop sign and slams into my house,” Genavieve Villar said.
Villar said her three young boys were playing outside with chalk in that exact spot, only moments before.
“I had just brought them in, and we were getting ready to shower to go to a family event, and we just heard an explosion,” she said.
Her surveillance cameras captured the speeding Corvette as it crashed into a concrete wall, her boat and a trailer on the side of her house.
“My mom was screaming, and all we could see at that point was the Corvette just sitting there and fuming,” she said. “You could smell the smoke, and it was just really, really scary.”
Villar said the driver was a man in his 60s, and lives across the street.
According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the driver and a passenger were not injured, but he was cited for the accident.
Meanwhile, Villar said this was the second accident that had happened in front of her home since they moved in six months ago.
“Coming from his left side, somebody ran into the front of his truck and completely totaled his truck,” she said.
Neighbors in the area also weighed in after the crash.
They said traffic in the area is concerning, and they want speed bumps put in.
“My concern is for the neighbors, the children, the animals, all in this neighborhood, that someone is going to get killed,” Kathy Kinkaid said.
Villar told NBC6 she is working to see how much it will cost to clean up the damage, but said she’s lost her sense of safety.
“Luckily, my kids were inside because that would have been, God forbid anything happened to them, but also, they’re very young,” she said. “I have babies, so for them to witness something like that is not something that I would want as a mother for them to see. So it was very scary.”
Villar said since this latest crash, she has been working with the Village of Palmetto Bay to put speed bumps in the area to slow people down.