Cruiser camera shows driver crash into home fixed up after tornado damage

HARRISON TWP. — A man whose home was damaged by a tornado earlier this year is displaced again after a speeding driver trying to avoid getting pulled over crashed into his house, troopers said.

The sport-utility vehicle caused significant damage to the foundation of the Neff Road home in the crash reported around 11:15 p.m. in Harrison Twp.

“This is just blow No. 2 for this gentleman, just before the end of 2019, as if it hasn’t been bad enough,” Sgt. Dallas Root of the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Dayton Post said.

A trooper was on routine patrol on Interstate 75 South when it spotted the SUV driving “at an extremely high rate of speed,” Root said. When the trooper caught up to the driver he tried to initiate a traffic stop.

“The vehicle then immediately stopped, exited off here at Neff Road, where it lost control because of its significant speed — we’re estimating at 100 and 115 (mph) when it exited — lost control here and then came off the side of the road and then hit this gentleman’s house,” Root said.

The driver, Miabi Takhsilov, 19, of Dayton, immediately got out of the SUV with his hands up and then laid face-down on the ground and put his hands behind his back, cruiser camera footage shows.

Just one house over, Christy Stover had a run-in with Takhsilov’s passenger, who ran away from the crash.

“It’s just scary,” she said. “I see this guy coming up through my driveway … He tries to go in my front door.”

The man broke her back window before he ran off, Stover said.

Deputies from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office arrested him at a nearby UDF, Root said. His name has not been released.

“I was just worried for my neighbors more than anything,” Stover said.

Why the driver was speeding and whether drugs or alcohol were involved remains under investigation, the sergeant said. Takhsilov was not in custody Tuesday afternoon.

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No one was seriously injured in the crash.

The impact of the crash ruptured a gas line, which led crews to call Vectren to shut off natural gas. Dayton Power & Light shut off electric service as well, and Root said a structural engineer would be needed to inspect the damage to the home’s foundation.

The American Red Cross also was called to assist the resident.