Car just pulled from house after fatal roof collapse crash

A car that landed inwards a Des Moines home during a crash Thursday was just pulled out of the home Friday.

The driver killed in the crash was identified Friday morning as 18-year-old Kyaus Davenport, of Tama.

The passenger injured in the crash was identified as 17-year-old Amaris Walker, of Tama. She remains in a hospital Friday morning and police said she is expected to get through.

The Des Moines Police Department Traffic Unit proceeds with the technical investigation of the crash. KCCI’s Kim St. Onge is working on this story today and will have fresh information about what a witness reported just before the crash.

The car veered off a street on a curve in Des Moines and smashed into a garage, causing the roof to fall on them.

Numerous rescue crews were called about Three:45 p.m. to the home at two thousand six hundred sixty nine East Sheridan Ave., which is just northwest of the Hubbell and Guthrie intersection.

“All of a unexpected, we heard a big noise, and dust and the fumes and lumps of debris came in the living room,” said Mary Lou Walker, who was stringing up up a picture in her living room when the accident happened. “I went to the door and people were running down Hubbell. I said, ‘What happened?’ and they said a car is in your garage.”

Two people were inwards the vehicle, which had been traveling on Hubbell Avenue. The woman passenger was extricated and taken to a hospital with unknown injuries.

“It was a good risk to the police and firefighters who were very first here on scene because they had to get those people out of that car,” Des Moines police Sgt. Paul Parizek said. “Clearly, the house is very unstable.”

The man who was driving the car died.

“I’m just so sad for them,” Walker said. “I’m sad for our house, but that can be substituted.”

Investigators are looking into what caused the accident, with initial reports pointing to excessive speed.

“You got to look at road characteristics,” Parizek said. “You have forms and higher speeds. Sometimes there are going to be crashes just because the way the road is designed.”

Residents said this isn’t the very first time an accident has occurred in the block.

“We have had our fence taken down most likely three times,” Walker said. “This is the very first time our trees have been taken out. We’ve had the light pole at the corner of our property snapped off. We’ve had the fire hydrant hit.”

Walker said she’s grateful she, her hubby and her cat made it out OK.

The Fire Department said the house is too unstable for anyone to go inwards at this time.

In the meantime, the Walkers are able to stay with their daughter, who lives a few blocks away.

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