HOUSTON — A landscaper suspected of being drunk tore up David Carlberg’s yard and almost destroyed his family.
“I think about it all day since it happened every single day,” Carlberg said. “(If) they had left two minutes earlier, (the driver) was coming too fast. There was no way they could have gotten out of the way. It’s a form of a miracle that no one was hurt.”
Carlberg’s wife and 4-year-old were steps away from the family’s black Kia Optima EX parked in their driveway. It was the only car Mrs. Carlberg loved, her husband said.
As she and the child walked out the door, David slowed them down with questions about their trip to the store. Moments later, the landscaper crashed.
“While (my wife) was talking she had the keys in her hand,” he said. “It just sounded like stuff was falling off a large entertainment center upstairs, but then it was just continuing louder and louder and louder. I thought the roof was caving in it was so loud.”
The driver of the truck hauling lawnmower equipment in a trailer faces DUI charges, according to Fort Bend County Precinct 3 deputies.
When the truck veered off the road in the Grand Lakes subdivision Thursday, its front tires flattened in a collision with a curb. Still, the truck and trailer maintained enough speed to hit and total the Carlberg’s Kia. Even then, the truck kept rolling.
“He did the Dukes of Hazzard jump after he knocked (three) crepe myrtles down,” Carlberg said.
The truck also cracked a pillar on the family’s porch. If the driver did not wrap his trailer around a tree, Carlberg believes the truck would have crashed through his house.
“All I think to myself is what if,” Carlberg added.
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