Video: Teen cited after truck crashes into High Point house

HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — A teen driver is being cited after a truck crashed into a house on Friday night, according to the High Point Police Department.

The crash was reported around 9:55 p.m. and police on the scene told FOX8 no one was hurt.

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The 16-year-old driver reportedly hit a pole, went onto the sidewalk, hit two cars and then crashed into the house on West English Road at the corner of Barker Avenue.

It is not known what caused the teen to crash at this time.

Neighbors described the moment that the truck went flying into the side of the house as a terrifying boom.

“I was like oh my goodness, what happened, something bad happened,” said Makita Tillman, who witnessed the crash. Tillman’s fun Friday night turned into terror.

“We heard like a really big car, a really big car, but obviously it was a truck and we heard it hit the gas and just really fast and sounded like boom, glass shattering, wood, metal everything just sounded like it went everywhere,” Tillman said.

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