The noise came first. Then the damage arrived all at once. Just after 7 p.m. on December 11, a box truck barreled down Cardiff Street in San Diego. Home security footage shows the driver clipping a parked trailer, ripping through a fence, smashing into a Toyota Camry, and shoving the car straight into a family home.
Inside was 27-year-old Anissa Zinsli, who missed being struck by seconds.
“It was inches,” her mother, Debbie Zinsli, told FOX 5. Anissa had stepped out of the bathroom after hearing the first impact. Moments later, debris blasted through the space. “She let out a gut-wrenching scream that still haunts me.”
The truck (and driver) didn’t get far after the crash
Zinsli said the at-fault driver tried to back away but only made it to the end of the driveway.
Police conducted a DUI test, and the 58-year-old appeared to pass…