PITTSBURGH \u2014 There\u2019s significant damage to a Mount Washington home after a car crashed into it early Thursday morning. The porch is gone, and two cars are damaged, but the homeowner says she\u2019s lucky because no one was hurt.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy alarm goes off at four o\u2019clock, and he hit quarter to four, so he woke me up, and it was like \u2018boom,\u2019\u201d Alane Yanalivich said.<\/p>\n
Yanalivich, her son and his family were asleep inside their Southern Avenue home Thursday morning when a driver came down Gray Street and barreled into the front porch and then into two parked cars.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no porch, there\u2019s no porch. When the truck got it, it moved over and hit his girlfriend\u2019s car,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Her son was able to get out of the back door and ran to the driver of the car that crashed, where he allegedly tried to get away.<\/p>\n
Yanalivich explained, \u201cMy son and the boy across the street there had kept him in his car. He was trying to start it.\u201d<\/p>\n
When the driver tried to start the car, it reportedly caught fire. Yanalivich says a neighbor grabbed water and put the fire out while they stayed with the driver until Pittsburgh Police arrived. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the police showed up, they first took him to the hospital, then they took him to jail,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Authorities say the driver was very likely intoxicated. <\/p>\n
\u201cPeople that drink and drive, you pay the consequences,\u201d Yanalivich said.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s happy no one was hurt, and that she is allowed to stay in her home.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe busted a lot of things. Everything is replaceable. Everybody was OK, and you know we\u2019re alive,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The homeowner says her family has put a GoFundMe together to help her pay her insurance deductible to fix the porch. <\/p>\n
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