It’s a miracle no one was hurt!
A tipsy driver crashed his car through a Staten Island home yesterday, coming to a stop against a couple’s bed — just below a portrait of Jesus.
Joseph Jamaleddine, 21, lost control of his pal’s Acura and plowed it into a home of retired United Nations employees Alonso Alunan, 67, and Rosalie Alunan, 68, in Rossville at 4:50 a.m. — and then allegedly took off running.
“It was like an earthquake. I thought the ceiling was falling. It was chaos,” said Rosalie, who was asleep in the home on Hampton Green near Nedra Lane.
She said it’s unbelievable nobody got hurt.
“It’s a miracle,” she said.
Alonso, who was in a deep sleep, said he thought he was having a nightmare at first.
“I heard someone shouting, ‘Get out! Get out!’ ” he recalled. “We had just gotten back from a cruise in Alaska, so I woke up thinking I was still on a boat and that it had been struck. I stood up and realized I was actually in my bedroom.”
Jamaleddine miscalculated a left turn around the cul-de-sac and wound up driving straight up the driveway, between a hedge and a parked car, before careening into the house, sources said.
He and the two back-seat passengers ran off, ditching the owner of the car, who was pinned in the front passenger seat, Alonso said.
The trapped man looked up at the couple and simply said, “Sorry,” according to Alonso.
Cops collared Jamaleddine nearby and charged him with driving while ability impaired for getting behind the wheel with a blood-alcohol level of .054, which is below the legal limit of .08, police said.
He also was slapped with charges of criminal mischief and leaving the scene of an accident, cops said.
Alonso said “it’s possible” Jesus had saved him. And he pointed out one odd detail of the crash.
“Everything on [my wife’s] altar fell down — except the Virgin Mary,” he said.
He added that it’s lucky the car crashed into a brass foot board, not at the head of the bed.
Additional reporting by Natalie O’Neill