Semi plows through Miami County house; third time it’s been hit over the years

“We’ve got a drive-thru now,” homeowner Dave Fisher said on Friday of the gaping hole in the side of his house.

It’s not the first time this has happened — “this is the third time it’s been hit,” including once when his great-grandparents owned it in the late 1960s or early ’70s, and in 1982 when a 1974 Mercury Montigo made a large hole on the east wall — but it will be the last, Fisher said.

The plan is to knock it down to prevent it from possibly falling into the roadway.

Although he is losing his family’s house, he said his worst fear did not happen.

Fisher was in an outbuilding on the property with machinery going and did not hear the crash but saw a flash of light and then part of his house gone.

“The first thing I screamed was ‘my wife’s in there,’ ” said Fisher, who added that he feared what he was going to find as he ran to the house.

“But what I did see was my wife being helped up by others. I hugged her and we carried her out. She had some cuts, scrapes and bruises, no broken bones and she got hit by a semi truck and walked away from it,” he said.