HOUSTON – Houston police said they are investigating what caused a driver to veer off the Gulf Freeway feeder road and crash into an apartment building in southeast Houston Monday.
It happened near the Gulf Freeway feeder road and Edgebrook around 6:17 a.m.
According to officers with the Houston Police Department, the driver drove an SUV off the freeway and crashed into a building at an apartment complex.
Officials said they were able to extricate the driver from the vehicle after stabilizing the building. The driver was transported to the hospital in unknown condition, HPD said.
Resident LaWayne Miles told KPRC 2′s Rilwan Balogun he is happy to be alive. He was in his unit at the time of the crash and the SUV is currently inside his kitchen.
“You go on the other side, you can see where it blew the windows to our bedroom, the glass and stuff,” Miles said.
According to Miles, this is not the first time this has happened.
“This is probably like the second time that I’ve known this to happen, and I’ve been here like five years. The first one was this apartment next to me but the vehicle lost control and it’s in my apartment now,” Miles said.
Investigators said no other injuries have been reported.
“Once we shore up the building it falls on city engineers because of city planning and the structural integrity of the building itself has to follow on them to make sure that this is actually sound,” Houston Fire Department District Chief Dave Ellias said.
City engineers will reportedly assess to figure out the integrity of the building.
The feeder is closed as heavy emergency traffic is in the area.