Runaway SUV Leaves Trail of Damage in Birdland
Driver suffered a seizure and lost control, speeding through several yards in Scott.
George Ponchione stepped onto his front porch at 12:45 p.m. Friday and headed for his car, intending to drive from his home in Scott Township’s Birdland neighborhood to Our Lady of Grace Church on Bower Hill Road. Instead, he spent the afternoon with his neighbors on Raven Drive, taking photographs and marveling at the block-long swath of damage left by a sport utility vehicle that went out of control on his street. As Ponchione stared from his porch, an SUV driven by a 32-year-old Ohio woman who suffered a seizure slammed into his parked car, then tore through his and several other yards before veering across the street. On the other side of Raven, he and other witnesses said, it crashed through shrubbery and another yard before hitting a…
