UNION CITY, Ohio — Union City Ohio Police arrested a driver Monday night after they said he crashed through a home while he was impaired.
>>PHOTOS: Crash causes significant damage to Union City house
Gregory Young Jr., 30, was arrested after he refused an OVI test and police found he was suspected of driving with a suspended license, according to Union City Ohio Police.
The crash happened around 6 p.m. in the 600 block of East Main Street.
“During the investigation it was found that Young was traveling Westbound on E. Main Street when he drove on the wrong side of the road and eventually drove up on the sidewalk and then into a house,” a statement from Union City Ohio Police read. “There was heavy structural damage done to the house.”
Police said Young was acting erratic and investigators said he was impaired and “presented to be on some sort of unknown stimulant.”
The home’s resident, Chelsea Stewart, told News Center 7 she was at home with seven of her children when the crash happened.
Stewart says her daughter was on the front porch when the car came blazing in.
“I was like ‘did someone break something?’ And then I saw all of the dust,” Stewart said.
She says two of her sons were upstairs at the time of the crash.
“My oldest son, who is 12, says that he was sitting on the bed and he got knocked to the floor,” Stewart said. “My other son, who is 10, says that he actually saw the car flying down the road through the window, so he started running toward the stairs to come downstairs.”
Most of Chelsea’s other children were in the back of the home at the time, but her eight-year-old daughter Tallula was on the front porch—right where the car hit.
“I had the glass top table with a metal frame base out on the porch and it broke,” Stewart said. “That’s what cut my daughter up, and the metal frame kind of pushed her.”
Tallula survived with only minor injuries.
After making sure her daughter was safe, Stewart says she was concerned for Young and tried to help him.
“I instantly went into ‘we need to get outside’ so we can pull them through the passenger side, cause his mother I guess was in the passenger side of the car,” Stewart said.
Police say there were no major injuries reported in the crash—something Stewart says she is truly grateful for.
“People make mistakes…not put other people at risk. It could have been a lot worse than what it is so we are very thankful that everyone is okay,” Stewart said.
She says she is just happy her family is safe and is focused on the positive in the situation not the negative.