A Palmetto Bay family is demanding action after a Corvette crashed through their fence a day before Christmas, leaving behind major damage and renewed concerns about speeding on their street.<\/p>\n
The crash happened around 5 p.m. on Wednesday along Southwest 174th Street. The family says they were preparing for a Christmas Eve gathering when they heard what sounded like an explosion.<\/p>\n
Security video captured the moment a Corvette came down the street, tires screeching, before slamming into the property, tearing down the fence, damaging a boat, and smashing through concrete.<\/p>\n
“My kids were playing outside just moments before the crash happened,” said homeowner Genavieve Villar. “They were drawing with chalk on that side of the house.”<\/p>\n
According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the sports car was traveling south on Southwest 88th Court when it crashed into the home. Villar says the vehicle belongs to a neighbor.<\/p>\n
No one inside the car or the home was injured.<\/p>\n
“We heard my mom screaming, and we just ran outside,” Villar said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The aftermath left shattered concrete and splintered wood \u2014 visible reminders of what Villar calls reckless driving.<\/p>\n
CBS News Miami went to the home of the alleged driver, where a black Corvette was seen parked behind a fence. Through a Ring camera, residents declined to comment.<\/p>\n
For Villar, this was not an isolated incident.<\/p>\n
“This is the second time something like this has happened at our home,” she said.<\/p>\n
Just six months ago, Villar says her husband was hit while trying to leave their driveway.<\/p>\n
“Someone ran straight into the side of his car. She was speeding,” Villar said. “It totaled his F-250.”<\/p>\n
Now, the family is calling on the village to install traffic-calming measures such as speed bumps or a roundabout.<\/p>\n
Palmetto Bay Vice Mayor Mark Merwitzer says the village is looking into solutions.<\/p>\n
“Some solutions that the village has deployed just down the street here is a miniature roundabout in the middle of the street that forces residents to slow down,” Merwitzer said. “That could be one solution. We have speed bumps, obviously. There’s a whole buffet of things that we can choose from, but I want residents to know that I’m actively looking for more information here and that we’re going to solve this and address this together.”<\/p>\n
The family is currently away on vacation and does not yet know how much the repairs will cost.<\/p>\n
The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said that the driver was cited after the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Palmetto Bay family is demanding action after a Corvette crashed through their fence a day before Christmas,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[52903,123,125,124,52493],"class_list":{"0":"post-100933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-corvette","9":"tag-miami","10":"tag-miami-headlines","11":"tag-miami-news","12":"tag-palmetto-bay"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}