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Out-of-control car with kids inside plows through Lake County yards

Officers arrested the driver, but aren't confirming if or how he may be related to the 2 children who were in the back seat.

The families who live on Primrose St. in Mentor-on-the-Lake are still shaking their heads about what plowed through their corner of the world in a matter of seconds.

Kim Toth saw it at about 5 p.m. on Thursday through her kitchen window.

"I was standing there making a salad and thought, 'WHAT THE HECK!?!"

A red car racing through one yard after another.

Kim and husband Denny's outdoor security camera confirmed what she saw from the window.

The Toth's then showed Channel 3 News the video.

The driver of the car comes flying off of Andrews road, through the field at the intersection of primrose then busts through the fence, plows through the first yard taking out a post then right smack into Kim Desotell's concrete front porch steps.

"He was doing probably 25 –30 miles per hour," Desotell says and points out the rest of the path of the car that just kept going. He went over my bushes through my yard, went in between the telephone pole took on a little bit of that tree."

The width the car somehow squeezed through at that point, is only about 10 feet.

"He must have hit the pole at some point because part of his car was still there. He took out all of Wilma's fencing and went on through 3 more yards and stopped in about the 6th yard, just short of the telephone pole," Desotell explains.

"I went over to the car and the guy was OUT! He turned really blue. I never saw anything like it in my life," Dan Curik says.

Dan tears up when he says there were two very young children strapped into car seats in back.

D.J. Quiggle says the kids were aged "1-year-old and a 3-year-old at the most."

Quiggle was visiting his mom when the car plowed through her yard on Primrose. He describes what he saw once the car stopped.

"That driver was passed out, slouched over, eyes open, breathing really heavy. Police ripped open the door, did 2 doses of narcan, I believe. Then he started to turn blue and started to come out of it," says Quiggle.

Was the driver high? We still don't know definitively from Mentor-on-the-Lake Police who were at the scene.

"At this time we're not sure," said Officer Mark Merins.

Curik says he's a little surprised by that.

"Well they gave him the Narcan right then and there. Some liquid and they started pumping his chest and slowly starts coming around. His eyes were rolling around," says Curik.

Police say the kids remarkably were fine and went home with their mom.

Officers arrested the driver, but aren't confirming if or how he may be related to the kids.

What is perfectly clear is this could have been a lot worse.

"A lot worse because on this street there are dog walkers. There are people doing yard work. It's busy. This is the time of day everybody is out," says Desotell, still amazed no one was hurt.

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