Car crashes into Villages house

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A Maricopa woman was transported to the hospital Saturday after driving her car into a house she had just rented.

According to Maricopa Police Department spokesman Ricky Alvarado, the incident happened around 3 p.m. on the 43000 block of West Kramer Lane in the Villages at Rancho El Dorado.

The woman had rented the home the day before and was unpacking items from vehicles. When she backed up, the vehicle “took off fast,” smashing through a front window and stopping in the dining room, according to the report.

Alvarado said she was taken to Chandler Regional with neck pain. Blood tests were taken, but it is not believed impairment was a factor in the incident.

Raquel Hendrickson
Raquel, a.k.a. Rocky, is a sixth-generation Arizonan who spent her formative years in the Missouri Ozarks. After attending Temple University in Philadelphia, she earned a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and has been in the newspaper business since 1990. She has been a sports editor, general-assignment reporter, business editor, arts & entertainment editor, education reporter, government reporter and managing editor. After 16 years in the Verde Valley-Sedona, she moved to Maricopa in 2014. She loves the outdoors, the arts, great books and all kinds of animals.