- A pickup truck crashed into a Sarasota home in the early hours of Tuesday morning, causing minor injuries to the homeowner and leaving the driver unharmed.
There are bad ways to be woken up in the middle of the night, and then there is this. A Sarasota homeowner was jolted from sleep in the early hours of Tuesday morning when a pickup truck skipped a stop sign and turned his house into its final destination. No alarm clock necessary.
The incident unfolded in the Palm Aire neighborhood of Sarasota, a quiet residential community not typically known for vehicular intrusions. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the crash happened around 12:30 a.m., when most of Palm Aire was presumably asleep and completely unaware that a 2009 Ford F-150 was making its way east on Tournament Boulevard with what investigators would later describe, diplomatically, as a failure to stop.
The truck’s driver, a 54-year-old Sarasota man, approached the stop sign at the intersection of West Country Club Drive and kept right on going. The F-150 left the roadway, crossed whatever stood between the asphalt and the home’s exterior, and made contact with the structure on West Country Club Drive. The homeowner, a 62-year-old man, was inside the residence at the time and sustained minor injuries. The driver, somehow, walked away without a scratch…