A driver who fled and left his injured passenger behind after crashing into a Dania Beach home over the weekend is facing charges, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The crash happened around 5 p.m. Saturday near the 1300 block of West Dania Beach Boulevard.<\/p>\n
The home’s owner, Will, said he and his mother were inside when the car came crashing in through his living room.<\/p>\n
“I was in the kitchen and all of a sudden I hear a loud bang and next thing I know it\u2019s the car that ran into the house,” he said.<\/p>\n
Deputies and fire rescue crews responded and found the injured female passenger, who was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Broward Sheriff’s Office officials said.<\/p>\n
Will and his mother weren’t injured, but the crash caused severe damage to the home, which had to be boarded up.<\/p>\n
While at the scene, investigators learned the driver, 35-year-old Jimmere Thomas, had returned to the scene as an observer, BSO officials said.<\/p>\n
Thomas was taken into custody and faces charges including reckless driving, leaving the scene of an accident, and driving with a suspended license.<\/p>\n
Will said he had to board up the home and move out with his mother after the city deemed it unsafe.<\/p>\n
“We got a lot to recover from now. After such a loss, it takes a while to recover from these types of things,” he said. “I feel frustrated. You wake up in the morning, you think things are going one way and then all of a sudden it does a complete 180.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver who fled and left his injured passenger behind after crashing into a Dania Beach home over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[8904,249,251,250],"class_list":["post-386447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-dania-beach","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386447","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=386447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}