Pickup crashes into yard on Gayola as family watches

An 18-year-old woman who reportedly had a seizure while driving north on Big Bend Boulevard crashed her pickup truck through a fence and into a backyard in the 7400 block of Gayola Place, in Maplewood, while a father, his two children, and their grandmother watched from the yard, a few feet away.

None of  the family were injured, and the woman was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The driver first went off the road near the old QuikTrip location (2633 S Big Bend), according to Adam Barks, who was driving behind her.

“She first went up (on the curb) at CVS. She was fully up on the curb,” Barks said. “Then she came off, made it through the intersection. (The light was green.) Then she started swerving toward QuikTrip (new location on Manchester), smacked a Cadillac, almost smacked Imo’s, came back out to traffic, then she went out up on the curb and straight in between the (electrical) box and the trees and came all the way across and landed here.”

Mark Mosley and his children, Elliot, 3 and Wyatt, 8 and their grandmother, Carol Ann Porter were in the backyard when the truck came over the top of the retaining wall, through the fence and into the yard.

Moseley guessed the truck was going 30 miles per hour when it flew into his yard.

“We heard clanging around because she hit some signs,” Moseley said. “The kids were playing right there in the sprinkler. Luckily they were within my reach, and I grabbed them and ran out of the way. Luckily it stopped where it did. Terrifying to think how it could have been.”