While fires resulting from car crashes are not uncommon, it is far rarer for a crashed vehicle to set a house on fire. Yet that is exactly what happened in Detroit, where one such freak incident left a family suddenly without a home.
Speeding cars are proving to be dangerous not only for pedestrians and other motorists, but even for homes now, as one Ford Fusion proved by crashing into a house and setting the structure on fire.
It later came to be known that the driver of the Ford Fusion, a young man in his 20s, allegedly sideswiped an oncoming car at speed, losing control and crashing into the house…