State police continue to investigate after car hits two homes

HENRY COUNTY (WSLS 10) - "[It] sounded like a bomb going off. That's all I can remember," said Dorris Gravely, visibly shaken.

She was standing just a few inches away from the north-facing wall in her living room at about 7:45 Wednesday morning when a Honda Civic slammed into the wall, nearly coming all the way through.

"I run to my brother in-law's next door and I seen it as I was going up to his house," Gravely recalled.

She wasn't injured, but at the request of her family she went to the hospital to be checked out anyway.

Her brother in-law, Roosevelt Gravely Jr., was asleep in his home at the time of the crash, but woke up when the car glanced off his home before slamming into his sister in-law's home.

"I just heard a loud noise. Sounded like a plane had fell," Gravely Jr. explained.

A tree in his front yard was destroyed, bricks were ripped off his home and the wall facing his sister in-law's home now has a large crack in it, but he says all that matters is that his sister in-law is safe.

"Very relieved. I'm not worried about the house part. That can be fixed," he emphasized.

It wasn't clear Wednesday afternoon why the car ran off the road.

Dyer's Store Fire Chief Tommy Martin said the driver, a young woman, was going to work at Bank Services in Martinsville, but firefighters weren't able to learn anything else.

"She was not talking. Breathing well, but not responding in any way," Martin said.

She was rushed to the hospital with multiple cuts and scrapes all over her body.

A large amount of blood could be seen inside the car.

As for Dorris Gravely, "I'm just shook up, that's all. Just shook up."

Firefighters initially tried to have the driver air lifted to the hospital, but because of the bad weather the helicopter couldn't respond.

The driver's exact condition was not known Wednesday afternoon.