Broadway Porch Crash: Man Escapes Serious Injury

JOLIET, IL — Rescue crews from Joliet Fire Department Station 5 extricated a man on Sunday night after his car collided with a porch near the 900 block of North Broadway Street. The man's car flipped several times and left a trail of broken vehicle parts along the road. Fortunately, the man did not suffer serious injuries, the fire department announced on Facebook.

According to the fire department's Local 44, the crash scene spanned nearly 500 feet and the engine from the car was found nearly 100 feet from the scene of the wreck.

"Fortunately the driver walked away from this accident and did not receive any medical treatment," Local 44 firefighters informed their social media followers.

Joliet resident Bob Hernandez stopped at the scene Sunday night and produced a Facebook Live video. "A big car accident (sic) hit a house on Broadway some young people were racing (sic) police and witnesses amazed no one was injured or killed. The driver who incredibly survived fled the scene," Hernandez posted.

One of Hernandez's Facebook followers later wrote him asking, how do you get to these places so fast?

Hernandez replied, "I explained in my feed a Joliet officer passed me. I followed him and my cousin called me to tell me he passed the accident (as) it just occurred. I have several people who message me all the time about incidents in their neighborhoods."