Car plows through Southwest Side bedroom, man says he thought ‘bomb went off’

Two families are calling on leaders to do more to protect homes and the people in a Southwest Side neighborhood off the access road of Loop 410.

The calls come after a car plowed into a Dartmoor Street bedroom on Sunday afternoon.

Juan and Valerie Rodriguez were at home when a car went through their bedroom. The car knocked the exterior wall of the home down, and on top of Juan’s leg.

“I thought I was in Iraq, I thought another bomb went off,“ Juan Rodriguez said. “Part of the wall fell on my ankle.”

He later went to the hospital to be treated, but there were no major injuries from the crash.

It’s an issue the Rodriguezes are all too familiar with.

“This is the fourth time that there’s been a car wreck in my property,” Juan said. “But this is the first time it’s gone into the house.”