No injuries were reported after a woman accidentally crashed her car through a garage and the car struck her neighbor’s home in McHenry Monday afternoon, fire officials said.
The McHenry Township Fire Protection District and McHenry Police Department responded around 1:11 p.m. Monday to the 3800 block of Anne Street in McHenry for a report of a vehicle crash.
Police arrived and reported finding a car that had crashed through the garage and into the rear of a residence.
McHenry Township Fire Protection District Battalion Chief David Harwood said a resident was either pulling her vehicle into the garage or attempting to back the vehicle out of the garage.
The resident, an adult female, inadvertently drove forward directly through the back wall of the garage, Harwood said.
The car went through the yard and struck the front corner area of the neighboring house where it came to rest.
Harwood said the driver of the vehicle, who was the sole occupant, was uninjured.
Firefighters evaluated for any hazards and they had to shore up the back side of the garage out of an “abundance of caution” until a board-up company arrived and was able to reinforce it.
The two-car detached garage sustained significant damage but is repairable, Harwood said. It did not experience any collapse.
The neighboring home only sustained minor damage.
The City of McHenry Community Development Building Division responded to evaluate the structures.
The McHenry Police Department is investigating the cause of the crash.