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Same Levittown Home Has Been Hit By Vehicles Four Different Times

LEVITTOWN, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) -- Four times is not a charm. Unwelcome visitors once again came barreling into the same suburban home and police had to respond to an SOS call for a house getting hit.

As CBS2's Jennifer McLogan reported, it was a scene out of a horror movie.

A truck slammed through a suburban kitchen narrowly missing a Levittown family who wondered if they are somehow jinxed.

"This time was absolutely terrifying. We were just sitting in our living room watching Creature From The Black Lagoon," Janice McAree said.

"And trust me that was the scariest part of the movie when the truck drove into the house," Jeff McAree said.

Jinxed or cursed? Asked the McArees who have dodged runaway cars into their home four times in ten years.

Their house abuts a curve, some are speeding to beat the light at Wantagh Avenue and Cotton Lane, not far from Island Trees Middle School.

"This house has been hit four times since I owned it. Vestibule crushed in, slammed in side back here, and accident previous to this a truck landed on its hood," Jeff said.

The most recent time was the worst.

"It was horrifying. The kids were upstairs and I didn't know if my daughter was on the stairs coming down," Janice said.

First responders were afraid the house could erupt in flames and called for an immediate evacuation.

"Better for them to actually come down and climb over the hood of the truck than go out the top window," Jeff said.

The McArees escaped injury and so did the driver.

There are red light cameras at the nearest intersection and the speed limit is 40 mph, but cars still race by.

Neighbors are concerned.

"Very dangerous, and my kids are not allowed to go past this fence. Since we are here there have been at least six accidents," Gloria Stueckenschneider said.

The McArees said after they were his the third time they requested a guard rail, but were told that village and town studies showed a guard rail wasn't needed.

The county put up cameras instead.

Wantagh Avenue in Levittown is a county road, so a guard rail would have to be approved and paid for by Nassau County.

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