The community is raising money for a family who was displaced from their Antioch home after a pickup truck crashed into it, causing serious damage and sending two to the hospital.
The Antioch Fire Department responded around 4:33 p.m. on October 11 to the 300 block of North Avenue in Antioch for a report of a car into a building.
Antioch Fire Department Battalion Chief Joe DuShane said an elderly couple was driving in a pickup truck eastbound on North Avenue from Main Street.
The male driver began having a coughing spell and he passed out while driving, DuShane said.
The pickup truck veered off of the roadway and crashed into a duplex home on the southeast corner of North Avenue and Dwight Court.
DuShane said people were inside the home on the first and second floors when the crash occurred. They evacuated and were uninjured.
Police officers and firefighters assisted the female passenger out of the heavily damaged truck.
The female passenger and the male driver were both transported by ambulance to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, DuShane said. They had non-life-threatening injuries.
Firefighters had to stabilize the house before a tow truck pulled the truck out of the home, which sustained damage to the foundation and framing.
A board-up company was called to the scene, DuShane said. The house was deemed uninhabitable for the four residents.
Tiffany Felten said her mother, 63, and her younger brother, 22, are currently homeless and cannot afford to stay in a hotel.
The family, who lived in the upstairs unit, also cannot enter their home to gather belongings until further notice because it is too dangerous to walk up the stairs.
“The house was swaying back and forth when they last left it,” Felten said.
Felten, who has been an Antioch resident for the past six years, created a GoFundMe account to help raise money for her family.