HOLIDAY, Fla. (WSVN) — A Tampa-area woman is speaking out and sharing her story, days after a driver came to a smashing stop inside her home, sending her and a friend to the hospital.

Crystal Pankey said she was at her Pasco County home, Tuesday night, when the world turned upside down.

“It was just surreal,” she said.

The victim said she and a friend were sitting on the bed hanging out inside the residence when an SUV barreled in.

“I thought a missile came through the house. That’s the impact that I felt,” she said, “Like, I mean, I was on the edge of the bed, and it threw me all the way back into the back wall. When I came to, I couldn’t see anything; there was blood everywhere.”

Two days later, she was out of the hospital and nursing multiple wounds. Her friend is still in the inte

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