Sophia Anderson, 21, in her mug shot yesterday.
LAWN & DISORDER: Sophia Anderson, 21, in her mug shot yesterday, smashed into this Huntington, LI, home (left) while allegedly “smashed” herself. (
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She turned her Mercedes into a very expensive wrecking ball.
A Brooklyn woman drunkenly slammed her sports car into a Long Island home yesterday with such force that it tore through two rooms and landed in the back yard — taking with it everything, including the kitchen sink, cops said.
Amazingly, nobody was hurt in the 4 a.m. chaos, which left cabinets, dining-room chairs, a stove and stainless-steel bowls scattered around the crumpled red Mercedes-Benz CLK 320 in the rear of 96-year-old Helen Indiere’s once-tidy Huntington home.
“It sounded like a f–king explosion!” gasped Polly Hanson Greenberg, who lives next to Indiere’s home on Southdown Road.
The driver, Sophia Anderson, 21, emerged from the top-down convertible with only a few scratches and bruises on her face — even though the car took down a tree along its path of destruction.
“I’m not going to the hospital,” Anderson repeatedly slurred, according to Greenberg.
Instead, the Brooklyn woman ended up spending the night in the slammer on charges of driving while intoxicated after allegedly refusing to take a Breathalyzer test. Cops were powerless to draw blood from her because there were no serious injuries.
Officials estimated that Anderson was driving “at least” 40 to 50 mph down Browns Road when she got to the flashing red lights at the T-intersection with Southdown Road.
Instead of turning right or left, she went straight onto the front yard and punched sedan-size holes through Indiere’s house as the woman and a home-health aide slept inside.
The car slammed into a cypress tree, and its rear wheels landed atop some shrubs.
“It sounded like a wrecking ball,” said neighbor Kimberly Steinberg.
The 42-year-old woman said she ran outside and heard people yelling and glass breaking.
“I thought it was a fire,” Steinberg said. “All I saw was a red glow. I heard people making noise and glass breaking.
“Thank God Helen is fine.”
The retired dress-shop owner was sleeping in her room about 20 feet from where the car hit.
“If the girl had yanked the wheel to the left at the very last minute, we would be talking about a very different story here,” said Suffolk Deputy Inspector Mathew Lewis.
Indiere was nonchalant as she told arriving Suffolk County firefighters, “Yes, there was a very big accident in my house.”
She later told The Post, through a relative’s front door, “I’m just fine. I have no comment.”
Fire officials said it was only by pure luck that everyone walked away mostly unharmed.
“The impressive part was it was a . . . convertible with the top down and there was barely a scratch on [Anderson and her passenger],” said Huntington Fire Chief Ken Cochran. “They were very, very lucky.”
Lewis said the only thing Anderson and her passenger did right “was wear their seat belts.”
Greenberg described the male passenger as “very polite” and said he had to climb over his dazed pal before he could help her get out of the car.
The crash landing also nearly caused a gas leak — ripping out the stove from the kitchen. But National Grid workers were able to cut the line and avert further catastrophe.
“It could have been a disaster,” Cochran said.