LYNN – Residents said a car with three teenagers drove through one Lynnfield Street home’s window and then crashed into the porch of the home next door early Sunday morning. But officials reported that nobody was seriously injured in the incident.”I heard a BAM and thought it was a bomb so I stayed in the corner,” resident Teena Bruton said Sunday afternoon. “I didn’t know what was coming next.”Lynn Police reported responding to 52 Lynnfield St. at 2:03 a.m. Sunday on the report of a motor-vehicle accident, according to the police log.The resident of that address declined to give his name. But he pointed out damage to his front porch from the accident, debris from the teenagers’ car and the former hedge that the car had pushed under the home’s front porch. But the resident said his home was the second home hit.Next-door at 56 Lynnfield St., neighbor Bruton sat on a couch in her home on the west side of Lynnfield Street. Behind the couch, a boarded-up wall marked the location of her former bay window. She pointed to a chair and a computer desk about five feet from the wall. Bruton said she was sitting in the chair after working a double shift when the accident occurred. She said she was thrown to the floor and stayed there until the car hit the next house and she heard somebody calling out “George?” Are you okay?” She then saw three kids running away from the destroyed vehicle.”But for the grace of God it didn’t come further, and I’m grateful they got ?George’ out of the car,” Bruton said. “I’m grateful that boy didn’t die. I don’t know how I would have felt if he died.”But Bruton also said she was “distraught and tired and pissed off.” She said she has complained to the city many times about vehicles – particularly big-rig trucks from Route 1 and police and ambulances heading to Union Hospital – speeding down the street.”Between 12 and 6 a.m. it sounds like a freight train coming in,” she said. But she said the city hasn’t done anything; except roadwork that has made the street surface uneven and even more hazardous. Meanwhile, she said her back hurt from falling to the floor.”Otherwise it’s a very quiet neighborhood, the kids are well mannered, I love it around here,” Bruton said. “But maybe this is proof they need a light to slow cars down.
