FedEx truck driver seriously injured after crashing into Gwinnett County home

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - A FedEx truck crashed into a home in Gwinnett County on Tuesday, according to Gwinnett County Fire.

The wreck happened around 4 p.m. along the 5700 block of Tattersall Terrace NE in Buford. 

"I saw the part of the truck…I thought ‘why do I see part of a truck in my living room?’" Gwinnett County homeowner Yong Cho told Fox 5.

Cho says he was stunned when his Tuesday afternoon shower was interrupted by what he and other neighbors say sounded like a plane going down.

"It was a loud crash," resident Cindy Wade recalled.

The loud crash wasn’t a plane. It was the sound of a front door delivery gone terribly wrong.

Neighbors in the area told FOX 5 that the truck driver lost control around a curb, avoiding cars improperly parked on a street before he went through a mailbox, and then crashed into the residence.

"I looked out my bonus room window and I saw the truck just before it hit the house…when I came out I saw the driver lying on the road," Wade said.

From there, she called 911 out of worry for her neighbors who were inside at the time.

"I was concerned at first for them when I didn’t see them, but then they came up," she said.

According to Gwinnett Fire, no one who lived inside the home was injured. Medics rushed the driver, who’d apparently been flung from the truck, to the hospital.

The front of the home sustained heavy damage, and authorities ultimately determined that the house's structural integrity was compromised. Crews applied shoring to reinforce the compromised structure until the damage can be addressed by building specialists. A heavy-duty wrecker was used to remove the vehicle from the home.

For safety reasons, the homeowners were forced to vacate the property.

Neighbors jumped into action to help the couple who’d lived there for more than 20 years.

"Everybody out here getting coolers to get their food out of the freezer. We’ve got some good neighbors," Wade stated.

Cho told FOX 5, despite the situation, he’s grateful his family is okay and hopeful the driver is too.

"I’m worried about the truck driver," he said.

The family checked into a hotel on Tuesday night with insurance covering the cost. It's unclear how the driver is doing or what caused the crash. 

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