BUFFALO, N.Y. — On Monday evening a car exiting the Kensington expressway slammed into a house at the corner of Humboldt Parkway and Butler Avenue.
The house has extensive damage, and car parts flew into the front window of the home.
Jada Lott lives there and told 2 On Your Side's Claudine Ewing, "It's just a mess, just everything needs to be replaced on the inside."
She was just seconds away from home after leaving a park when she received a call about the accident. She returned home to see the car on her front lawn. She was relieved because her family often sits on the front steps of the house.
A few weeks ago there was another accident in front of the home.
"Somebody stole a Kia, ran up on the curb, and hit that tree and my brother was outside watering the grass. He had to jump back out of the way," Lott said.
Butler Avenue resident Ray Mitchell said at times cars come off the 33 speeding and will turn down his street. "They hit my house three times, knocked the tree down in front of my house, knocked the pole down."
He would like to see traffic pattern changes, including speed humps and making Butler a one-way street in the opposite direction.
"We solicit the city to try to get speed bumps. We try to get different things done. Nobody has ever did anything," Mitchell said.
He can recall over a dozen accidents since living on Butler for 15 years.
"We need to prevent things from happening before they happen," he said.
"People come off the expressway with the 55-mile-an-hour mentality and they try to turn this corner on Butler and they just can't make it."
2 On Your Side reached out to reached out to the Masten district councilman who says it's been a concern for years.
"It's a shame that it takes something like this to get this level of attention back on these types of problems," said Councilman Ulysees O. Wingo Jr.
Wingo said they're working with the Department of Public Works, city engineering, and other departments to try to find permanent solutions.
"We've been working with the Department of Public Works. We've been working with our city engineering, we've been working with streets and sanitation. We've been working with myriad things and places and people to try to get some type of solutions that are going to be sustainable and permanent," said Wingo.