A Poway man fell asleep at the wheel Monday afternoon, hopping a curb and crashing into a home - letting the family dog loose.
The damage to the home has made it too unsafe to go inside, and the van - which drove over a curb, through bushes and between twin palms trees - collided with the home where the garage meets 11-year-old Capriss Mahtafar's bedroom.
"I'm sad I can't go in my room and see what happened in my room," Mahtafar said.
The van also created a hole in the wall large enough for the family dog Celesty to make a break for it.
She was still missing as of 9:30 p.m.
"[We are] very worried about her," Mahtafar said. "There are a lot of coyotes. She's been bitten once but she survived."
The drive of the van, Rory Higgins, said he's embarrassed and can't believe something like this happened. He was on his way home to take a nap when he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into the house.
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"I'm feeling pretty bad about the whole thing," Higgins said. "I never thought something like that would happen to me."
The family is dealing with the loss with great composure, but the recovery, they said, starts with finding Celesty.
Neighbors who heard the crash said they saw the dog run, uninjured, from the home in a south or southwesterly direction.
