{"id":259081,"date":"2026-05-05T11:16:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259081\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:16:26","slug":"florida-man-survives-van-crashing-into-home-while-he-was-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259081\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man survives van crashing into home while he was sleeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/zt65ltelanikyh4x.jpg\" alt=\"Man asleep survives crash to Orange County home\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; A Florida man survived a van crashing into his Orange County home while he was asleep in bed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Tyler Fahy\u00a0described waking up to dust everywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">&#8220;I really couldn&#8217;t see, and I was coughing,&#8221; he told FOX 35&#8217;s Amanda McKenzie. &#8220;I realized I was buried in cinder block and a door partly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wofl-van-crashes-into-home-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the crash that occurred at a residence near the intersection of Alafaya Woods Court and Alafaya Trail, around 3:40 a.m., May 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Fahy was asleep when a van crashed into the side of his him and into the bedroom. Two vehicles parked outside the home were also hit, FHP reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Troopers said the crash occurred when a driver ran off the road \u2013 hitting the back of another vehicle. The impact caused the driver&#8217;s vehicle to be redirected and hit the home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">No injuries were reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wofl-van-crashes-into-home-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  Who was the driver?\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">After the crash, FHP said the driver ran away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Troopers working to identify the driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">This crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Anyone with information regarding this crash is asked to contact FHP or CRIMELINE.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written with information gathered by FOX 35 reporter Amanda McKenzie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/orange-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; A Florida man survived a van crashing into his Orange County home while he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47,115,1335,139,141,140,628],"class_list":["post-259081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259081","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=259081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}