A California home-owner is calling for motion from town leaders right after his San Jose residence has been crashed into around 20 instances in the previous 5 decades. 

"The town demands to do a thing to protect, not only us, but the total community," property owner Ray Minter told KTVU.

The South Bay resident has lived at his East San Jose house considering that 1960 – and considering that 1972, 23 individuals have crashed onto his property, Minter stated. He chalks it up to the truth that I-680 was constructed in 1972 and one of the off-ramps potential customers to his road, Jackson Avenue.

For the previous 50 yrs, drivers have miscalculated how quick they are driving and have plunged their vehicles onto Minter's residence. Even with his coverage firm dishing out virtually $30,000 to set steel poles in his yard, the crashes maintain taking place.

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Ray Minter suggests his residence has been crashed into at minimum 23 moments considering the fact that 1972. (Ray Minter via KTVU)

"A handful of of them have been damage pretty terribly but most of them have been drunk. Like the man in 2016," Minter recounted. "He was driving a 2016 GMC Substantial Sierra. My automobile was appropriate there the place the rocks are, and he hit that at 105 miles per hour."

Not only has his dwelling been destroyed in the virtually two dozen accidents - but at the very least a single of Minter's relatives members has experienced injuries as well.

The Town of San Jose states they are waiting around for a grant to begin a basic safety undertaking to stop a lot more mishaps. (Ray Minter via KTVU)

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"My youngest niece, she was young. She was appropriate listed here on the control and a woman came traveling across and strike her," Minter explained to KTVU. "She was in the medical center for a pair of months and broke her arm."

Irrespective of Minter's pleas, the Town of San Jose – which is also identified as the Cash of Silicon Valley – has taken care of that it has no authority to modify the off-ramp. The metropolis has used for a $40 million grant to build a protection task together Jackson Avenue. 

Almost two dozen motorists have miscalculated their speed exiting I-680 and crashed on to Minter's home. (Ray Minter by means of KTVU)

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If San Jose is awarded the grant, work for the street improvement venture will begin in 2023. But until finally then, the metropolis is just encouraging motorists to slow down and obey targeted visitors rules.