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85-year-old woman slams pickup truck into a Buffalo home

Buffalo Police are trying to determine why an elderly driver plowed her vehicle into a house on Suffolk Avenue.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Police are trying to determine if an 85-year-old female driver had a medical emergency behind the wheel on Memorial Day afternoon. 

The vehicle, according to police, came through the intersection of East Delavan Avenue and Suffolk Street, went into the parking lot of the Sunoco convenience store and gas station, went through a fence, and landed inside a home on Suffolk Street.

The homeowner, Mohammed Sarwar said it sounded and felt like "an earthquake."

He was on his living-room couch and considers himself fortunate to be alive. 

"A few inches over I could have been hit in the head and dead on the spot," he said.

On Memorial Day - shortly after 2 pm - look at this picture of a pickup truck that somehow drove into the parking lot of a convenience store - through a fence and i

The home suffered extensive damage outside and inside. All five people in the home are expected to be OK. However, the father is being treated for a leg injury.

"Thank the lord we are still alive," Sarwar told 2 On Your Side.

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