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Corvette story
Pit Stop at a Home in Medford:
Car catapults to 2nd floor of residence
LONG ISLAND, NY -- For Kathy and Robert Ilardi of Medford, Monday night was winding down uneventfully. A little laundry. The first half of "The Tonight Show" -- George Clooney talking with Jay about "ER." She clicked the lights out by midnight.
That's about when the Corvette catapulted over an embankment and tore a hole through their upstairs bedroom wall.
"I remember a thud and little bit of a shake," Kathy Ilardi said. "I went to look out my window, and couldn't see anything."
Cold air pumped through the hole a few feet from the foot of their bed. She peered through and saw the red car smoking and groaning 15 feet below. Its owner, Louis Tirella, 56, was leaning against the house, smoking a cigarette and waiting for police to arrive.
Tirella was arrested later and charged with driving while intoxicated.
The incident happened about 11:55 p.m. when Tirella, was driving his 1987 Chevrolet and lost control just south of the Ilardis' house.
The car plowed over a mailbox on the other side of the street, then careered across four lanes of traffic and was launched over a snowy, dirt embankment in the Ilardis' front yard. It tore a hole in the wall, then bounced off and landed in the front yard.
Police don't know how fast Tirella was traveling. "But for that car to go airborne," police spokesman Sonny Di Stefano said, "then the speed was definitely a factor.
Car catapults to 2nd floor of residence
LONG ISLAND, NY -- For Kathy and Robert Ilardi of Medford, Monday night was winding down uneventfully. A little laundry. The first half of "The Tonight Show" -- George Clooney talking with Jay about "ER." She clicked the lights out by midnight.
That's about when the Corvette catapulted over an embankment and tore a hole through their upstairs bedroom wall.
"I remember a thud and little bit of a shake," Kathy Ilardi said. "I went to look out my window, and couldn't see anything."
Cold air pumped through the hole a few feet from the foot of their bed. She peered through and saw the red car smoking and groaning 15 feet below. Its owner, Louis Tirella, 56, was leaning against the house, smoking a cigarette and waiting for police to arrive.
Tirella was arrested later and charged with driving while intoxicated.
The incident happened about 11:55 p.m. when Tirella, was driving his 1987 Chevrolet and lost control just south of the Ilardis' house.
The car plowed over a mailbox on the other side of the street, then careered across four lanes of traffic and was launched over a snowy, dirt embankment in the Ilardis' front yard. It tore a hole in the wall, then bounced off and landed in the front yard.
Police don't know how fast Tirella was traveling. "But for that car to go airborne," police spokesman Sonny Di Stefano said, "then the speed was definitely a factor.
