Van crashes through guest room

DAYTON - A woman, possibly suffering a seizure, plowed through the bedroom of a Fortune Drive home early Tuesday morning, according to police.

Lyon County Sheriff's Deputy Robert Wilson said April Smith, 39, of Dayton, was heading to work east on Sheepcamp Drive about 6:30 a.m. when she drove through the intersection and into the south corner of a home at 110 Fortune Drive.

Homeowner Jeremy Best said he was asleep when he heard the crash and thought a water main had burst.

"I was kind of looking around and I opened my bedroom door and saw a mini-van in my house," he said.

Fortunately, the guest room was empty.

The van crashed through a tree, which it carried through the exterior wall, over a bed, and across the room before breaching the wall into a bathroom that separates the guest room from Best's master bedroom.

Best said when he scrambled over the wreckage, Smith was slumped in the front seat with a bloody nose from the airbag's deployment.

He said she appeared dazed and did not speak to him, but did put her head up when he asked.

Smith was taken by helicopter to Renown Regional Medical Center where she was treated and released with minor injuries.

Her mother, Alice Rowan, who lives near Fortune Drive and came to scene when she heard what happened, declined to comment on her daughter's medical condition.

She did say, however, that she was relieved no one in the home was hurt and her daughter is fine.

"Thank God there was no one in that room," Rowan said.

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