I know, this is purely anecdotal, but for the past 2 years or so, it seems that every morning news has one of these incidents! I never heard of these things untill recently. To my mind there are several possible explanations:
-drivers are getting older-and you lose coordination as you age (however, MOST of these incidents involve younger drivers)
-use of cell phones while driving-could this explain it?
-more people on the road at very strange hours(many of these things happen at 3, 4, 5 AM-why are people out at that hour?)
Anyway, should i consider installing “JERSEY BARRIERS” around my house? This is scarey! :smack:
I haven’t noticed an epidemic, but several years ago when my brother first got his license, he very nearly crashed into someone’s house. He was driving around the neighborhood at a fast clip and came up on a sharp turn. He didn’t slow down or turn well enough, and it sent him right into the yard on the corner. If it hadn’t been for large rocks in the yard, he would’ve plowed right into the house.
So chalk that one up to idiot newbie driver. 
I’ve seen reports on cars crashing into houses all my life. Unless you have data showing an increase, I’d say you’re just noticing it more.
We had a semi streak past the house in our front yard and stop flipped in the neighbors front yard. It was Easter and all the relatives were present. All of a sudden the talking stopped and we rushed out the door. The semi missed the neighbor’s house by about 15 feet. The engine was running with the tires spinning fast and the guy was hanging upside down in his seat. I’ve looked at the location of buildings ever since to be sure it’s not on a curve or below a highway on off ramp. Some of the houses on the worst corners have tree damage a couple times a year. That’s a lot of near misses for the house. There’s one cottage below the road grade on a sharp turn next to a bar. I wouldn’t stay there for anything.
Two houses I was living in were hit by cars, about 15 to 20 years ago (a couple of years apart; both times ‘alcohol was suspected to be a contributing factor’).
Two or three houses neighboring another house I lived in were hit by cars. There was a car crash within a block of my house about every quarter, during daylight, on a straight, flat, well-lit street; we used to joke that the street must have paved over an Indian burial ground.
I almost hit a house once, but the car (I hated that car) fortunately stalled; the same thing happened to my sister; and my brother-in-law …
Are cars hitting houses uncommon?
We lived in a house across the street from the top part of a “T” intersection. Until the city put up a guard rail, people would crash through our fence a couple of times a year, usually on nights when the Blackhawks had been playing. The first one would have hit our house except the freestanding brick garage was in the way. The guy totaled his car and the garage, but walked (unsteadily) away.
A car crashed into a nearby school a few years ago. Fortunately, it was early in the morning, and no students were there. The driver must have not noticed ( 
) that he was at a T-intersection and he kept on going–straight into the gymnasium!
Huh, it seems like a steady amount of idiots driving into houses to me. But I’ve noticed an epidemic of people shooting up public places over the past few months. I bet there aren’t really more incidents of either, though, just better national news coverage.