A 2-year-old boy escaped injury Monday after his quick-thinking mother pushed him out of the path of a car barreling into the front of their Hempfield home.

Amanda Clark said the boy was standing at the glass storm door looking out at Sells Lane around 12:30 p.m. while she was vacuuming.

“Out of the right side of my eye, I saw a car coming and pushed him out of the way,” she said. “Right where he was standing, the whole wall here is buckled in and thank God he’s OK and safe.”

The crash shut down the residential street near the Greensburg border for a couple of hours Monday afternoon as fire crews inspected the home and the utility pole was replaced. State Trooper Steve Limani said four teen males, three age 18 another 17, were in the car. Hempfield Fire Chief Anthony Kovacic said one of the teens in the car was hospitalized.

“There is some damage to the structure as the result of the impact,” Kovacic said.

Witnesses reported that the car was speeding just prior to the crash.

Neighbor Daniel H. Waugaman came outside to get some fresh air during a break in the rain when the crash happened. He’s lived there since 1949 and said motorists regularly speed on the road, which has a 25 mph speed limit.

“I just saw this white colored car going up here on the right side, flew into the pole, the pole flew in two pieces and he flew across the street,” he said. “It was like there was nobody in his way.”

Scott Mehalcik was working on the windows of a neighboring home when he heard snapping noises and people screaming. The utility lines fell onto his truck, leaving him stuck until they could be disconnected.

Clark’s video doorbell captured the crash and aftermath of the teens getting out of the car, popping the trunk and starting to walk away. She said the house was deemed uninhabitable and she was looking for a place to stay.

Firefighters used plywood to cover the damage that went into her son’s bedroom.

“The scariest thing is, I usually have a blow up bouncy house with a ball pit right where they crashed. Usually every day it’s blown up and my son’s in it,” Clark said. “Thank God for the rain today that he wasn’t out here.”

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