The residents of 2902 Lincoln Way were shaken out of their seats Friday night around 8:00 when a car slammed into the side of their front porch.

The driver of a red Honda CRX was headed west on Lincoln Way when she swerved to miss a blue Pontiac Grand Am that turned off of Campus Avenue in front of oncoming traffic. She proceeded to hit the porch when she attempted to avoid the Pontiac.

A woman consoled the driver, who was crying and saying she thought she may have broken her wrist and and foot. She said she had just gotten off work and was headed to Hy-Vee for groceries.

“It shook the whole house. I was in the house. I ran downstairs yelling, ‘What the heck happened?” said Laura Heitshusen, a senior in dietetics, who lives at 2902 Lincoln Way.

Tony Meyer, a sophomore in business, was westbound in the right lane when the Pontiac pulled in front of him. He turned sharply down Campus Avenue to avoid hitting the car. He was angry about the incident.

“This bitch [driver of the Pontiac] was pulling right out in front and was gonna hit us. That’s why I pulled out and turned onto Campus. I was gonna turn anyway,” he said.

The officer in charge of the scene for the Ames Police Department, Jeff Brinkley, refused to comment on the accident.

As of press time Sunday, the names of the drivers of the Honda and the Pontiac were not known. The Honda had Linn county plates and the Pontiac had Crawford county plates.

This is the second car accident on the same corner in six weeks. On Sept. 7 a car hit the corner’s light pole, and the pole fell over onto the car.

“It sounded like a train wreck with explosions of glass or heavy ceramics like a rumble. Two accidents at our corner in short time. It just ain’t right,” said Clayton Schmidt, a junior in sociology, who heard Friday’s accident.

“If you go out drinking and driving, watch out for this corner. It’s a dangerous corner,” he said.