Kendric Dennard Stephens, 37, is facing leaving the scene of a crash with property damage, driving while license suspended, canceled or revoked, as well as violation of probation, officials say.<\/p>\n
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The crash happened just before 3 a.m. on \u00a0June 8 on 14th Avenue South. Police say a Honda Accord barreled through the neighborhood and struck a tree in a yard before slamming into a house.<\/p>\n
Surveillance cameras in the neighborhood had captured a person, now identified as Stephens, limping away from the crash scene. Despite initial reports, police now say the Honda that he was driving belongs to a family member and was not stolen.<\/p>\n
\n‘It’s like a bomb dropped’: Couple displaced after driver slams into home <\/p>\n
10 Tampa Bay News spoke to homeowners Abbott and Sandra Henderson, who described the moment the car crashed into their home of 30 years.<\/p>\n
By daylight, the damage was impossible to miss. Part of the home’s front wall was gone, the living room was exposed to the outside and debris covered the yard.<\/p>\n
“I woke up in the middle of the night, and it’s like a bomb dropped,” Abbott said, adding that the fire jolted him awake. “Got up, got the wife up and said we gotta get the hell out of here, the house is on fire too.”<\/p>\n
Sandra said she woke up to her husband urgently calling her name.<\/p>\n
“He was yelling, calling me, ‘San, San, get up, get up,'” she said. “I panicked. I was like this ain’t happening, this ain’t happening, no way,” she said.<\/p>\n
As flames spread, the couple rushed to escape. Abbott said they couldn’t get through their locked back gate because the keys were still inside the house.<\/p>\n
“I had to kick the gate in to get out,” he said.<\/p>\n
The couple made it out safely, but the damage left them without a place to stay.<\/p>\n
“Now, we’re gonna be homeless until we get this fixed. My car is damaged, totaled,” Sandra said.<\/p>\n
Despite the uncertainty, the couple said neighbors have stepped up to help.<\/p>\n
“They been a blessing, helping, giving us water,” Sandra said.<\/p>\n
While the home they built over three decades was torn apart in an instant, the Hendersons said the support from the community around them has given them hope as they begin rebuilding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a Honda Accord barreled through a St. Pete neighborhood and struck a tree in a yard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-304554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304554","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=304554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}