COLLINSVILLE, IL (KTVI-FOX2now.com)—
A Collinsville family feels fortunate to be alive after a shuttle bus crashed into their home late Saturday night. "Thought it was thunder at first until I looked over to where it was coming from and saw the back of the wall where the porch was moving in towards me," said Mathew Willeford, homeowner. He was playing video games when the Madison County Transit bus slammed into the side of his home."It looked that whole part of the house was coming at me," he said.
Mathew's father had just gone to bed.
"All of a sudden this loud boom hit the house and shook me and rocked me in my bed," said Dale Willeford.
There were only two passengers on the bus. One suffered a broken arm.
The other passenger, Michael Watt, had some bumps and bruises.
"I was scared out my mind kind of thought I was going to die almost but then I just calmed down and kind of took the impact," said Watt.
He believes the driver dozed off right before the crash.
"By the time I looked up I could see him heading toward a car lot and I just braced myself and boom I just fell on the floor im just glad I didn't break anything," Watt said.
"We've contacted the Madison County Transit people and theyve been very cooperative and they say they'd take care of everything for us," said Dale Willeford.
Even if his family won't sleep easy anytime soon, they want to return home as soon as possible.
Mathew Willeford says his family will not move somewhere else.
"I've lived in that house my entire life a bus hitting it ain't going to drive us away from it."
