Teen Jumps Pool with Mustang and Lands into Home

You are probably used to hearing about teens getting their dad’s expensive car out for a spin and crash it. This is also what happened to a 16-year-old boy, with no driving license, from Placentia, California, who decided it’s time to take his father’s Saleen Mustang for a spin. The bad news is that now the kid is hospitalized.

The Ford Mustang he was driving crashed into a retaining wall, jumped over a pool and plowed into the house of a family from his hometown. The teen suffered multiple injuries, including a broken leg, ankle and back, as related by carscoop.blogspot.com.

Though the family was inside the house at the time of the incident, no one was injured, Placentia police Sgt. Ken Alexander reported. The incident occurred at 10:22 p.m. Sunday as the boy was driving eastbound on Pinehurst Avenue at about 85 mph when he lost control and... you know what followed.

Bucky Maurin, who lives on Pinehurst, said he heard the engine of a car revving and ten seconds later heard “a big, huge impact… like an explosion.”

“This is the first time since they built the wall in 1984 that we’ve had an accident,” Maurin said, who ran out to find bricks scattered everywhere.

The driver was conscious and somewhat coherent as firefighters worked to pull him out of the seriously damaged Mustang. He was then taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange, where he is still recovering.