Police say an elderly woman will not be cited after she crashed her car through a garage and the car struck her neighbor’s home, leaving her injured, in McHenry Monday afternoon.
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.
While fire officials said the driver of the vehicle, who was the sole occupant, was uninjured, police said she suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to Northwestern Medicine Hospital in McHenry.
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.
McHenry Deputy Police Chief Thomas Walsh said the driver, an 82-year-old woman, was pulling her black 2021 Cadillac CT4 into her detached garage when she mistakenly pressed the accelerator instead of the brake pedal.
The Cadillac went through a garage wall and struck the front porch of the neighboring residence on Dale Avenue.
Walsh said the driver has not been cited or charged.