Yard carnage

I got a call this afternoon at work from the Cottonwood Heights police department.  At first I thought it was a prank.  Then I panicked and thought the house was on fire or had been burglarized.  The cop explained that four 16 year old girls were driving at excessive speed (approximately 60 in a 10 MPH zone) down our road, lost control, smashed through our front yard, off a 15 foot retaining wall and landed in the neighbors bushes.  I rushed home to see for myself just what it looked like and it was nuts.  How they managed to avoid the house is beyond me.  We lost 2 trees and a chuck of the retaining wall, but it could have been much worse.  The driver was taken away by ambulance with a concussion and the other three were cut up from the truck windows getting smashed out.  Seriously crazy.  The neighbors came out en masse when we got home.  In fact, I think I met more neighbors today than I have since we moved in.  There was lots of gawking and picture taking and pretty much just disbelief at the fact they didn't have to carry bodies away from the scene.  Bummer Jeff is in Elko and only gets to live it through pictures until he gets back tomorrow.

Crab apple tree got launched up the hill and the sign...well, it's history

Skid marks across driveway. Another crab apple tossed into the garage door. She flew right through the pile of snow, lost her side mirror on the brick wall and flew over the front steps

Exit from yard Thelma and Louise style. A 15+ foot drop down to the road.  Witnesses said one of the girls was bleeding and screaming she wanted her mommy.  I would have been too after a maneuver like that

Her landing zone.  Note the giant retaining wall bricks scattered in his yard.  Considering I can't even lift one of them, it was clear she was traveling at a crazy speed

Can you imagine launching off that and flying all the way across the street???

Clean up

Stupid girl