Mystery shrouds car stuck between two Buffalo homes

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo police had a mystery on their hands Wednesday as they investigated a strange accident that occurred around 3 a.m. on Doat Street in the city’s Schiller Park neighborhood.

The occupant, or occupants, of a late model Chevrolet Malibu, underplate, from Forsyth County, Georgia, apparently fled the scene, although there were signs that they might have be injured.

I’ve never seen anything like this

“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Louella Davis said as she stood on the porch of the house she rents, of the car that got stuck between her house and that of ‘side with such force that it had to be towed. truck driver using winch to remove it.

Davis remembers being awakened from her sleep around 3 a.m. by a loud noise.

“All of a sudden I heard a loud boom. I jumped up and looked out the window and saw nothing. Then when I got up this morning I went out onto the porch and I looked in my driveway and I just saw the car,” Davis said.

Louella immediately called her owner, Patricia Kaczmarek, who had arrived from her residence a few doors away.

“I came here and… oh my God,” Kaczmarek said as she prepared to deal with her insurance adjuster after the home she’s owned for 40 years may have suffered minor structural damage, as well as obvious cosmetic damage due to car impact. .

“What a waste,” Kaczmarek said.

The $64,000 question is…

Kaczmarek and Davis believe the car must have been speeding down Sumner Place, which intersects Doat Street directly across from the alley where it ended up.

It was wedged so tightly between the two houses that it seemed there was no way to open the doors.

When asked how they thought the occupants got out, Davis responded, “You know what? I wondered that myself!

They speculated that the person in the car could have freed themselves by crawling out of the trunk, after noticing that the rear seats had been lowered and the trunk was open. They also observed blood on the steering wheel and windshield, but they are unsure when the car was discovered.

Both said speeding was a problem in the neighborhood, even though there was a school a few blocks away.

“Every day they’re shooting down the street at eighty or ninety miles an hour,” Davis said. “We have been complaining about this for a long time.”

According to the city’s Slow Streets program, Sumner Park, where the car allegedly drove at high speeds, was approved for the installation of speed bumps. Doat Street’s application for traffic calming devices is still under review and may not be approved for about a year.

Davis hopes speed bumps become a reality sooner rather than later.

“We’ve seen a lot of accidents on this street,” she said.