Kimberly Worpek, 22, was playing a computer game in her Gunson Street apartment early Friday morning when she heard a speeding car.
"I heard a crash, I looked at the window out of instinct — 15 seconds later, a car was coming through it," said the Garten Haus, 400 Gunson Street, resident.
The vehicle crashed into her living room window, steps from where she was sitting. Worpek was not injured. Her roommate, DJ Booker, a mechanical engineering senior, was not home at the time.
The vehicle's three occupants ran from the scene. The driver, a 22-year-old male MSU student, was found and arrested for drunken driving, East Lansing police Lt. Kim Johnson said.
Police are not looking for the two passengers, Johnson said.
The house suffered significant structural damage to one wall. A large picture window was smashed, and the wall around it is crumbled and caving in.
There is not an amount of estimated damages yet.
Johnson said according to witness reports, the driver was speeding down Linden Street, which ends in a stop at Gunson Street. The driver didn't stop as he tried to turn onto Gunson, driving across Gunson and into Worpek's apartment. Johnson said the corner at Gunson and Linden streets does not have a history of accidents.
The first crash Worpek said she heard was the car hitting a small brick fence that lines Garten Haus. Those bricks are now strewn through the lawn, leading up to the house. The car landed in the living room opposite from where Worpek was sitting at about 1:55 a.m. The vehicle pushed a large white leather couch forward and knocked over a fan inside Worpek's living room, but for the most part there were no personal items damaged, she said.
Jon Palmer, a supply chain management senior, said he was walking a friend to a car on Linden when he saw the car speeding down the street, "probably (at) about 80."
"I didn't hear any brakes — just a big thump," he said.
After the crash, witnesses said the men were silent as they ran away — as hospitality business senior Marc Hyndman said, "they just booked it."
"I'm really annoyed they ran. Pissed off," Worpek said Friday.
Staff writer Melissa Domsic contributed to this report.
