Canton, OH : Canton woman comes home to find fatal crash in her yard on Thursday September 15 2016

A Massillon man was killed and five people in the vehicle with him were taken to area hospitals after a single-vehicle crash on Cleveland Avenue SW Thursday night.

Firefighter/paramedics and police were called at 9:46 p.m. to 2645 Cleveland Ave. SW where the 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer was overturned, said Battalion Chief Dan Reed of the Canton Fire Department.

The vehicle apparently hit a large pole at 2635 Cleveland Ave. SW, rolled over and up an embankment, hit the front porch of the home at 2645 Cleveland and landed on its roof. Police were investigating the crash on Friday.

Medics found three passengers already out of the vehicle and three others trapped inside, including Nicholas Capalingo, 22, of Massillon, who was pronounced dead at 10:28 p.m. at Aultman Hospital.

Firefighter/paramedics worked for 20 minutes to free the three who were trapped inside, and everyone was taken to area hospitals, he said. Plain Township firefighters and Stark Ambulance workers assisted Canton firefighters.

Those inside the vehicle were 20 to 22 years old, investigators said.

Emergency workers eventually closed Cleveland Avenue from the I-77 south ramp south to Mill Street.

"We were coming back from boating at the lake and.... This is horrible,' said Rose Jackson, who lives nearby.

Marolyn Clauss, who has lived for 33 years in the house where the vehicle came to rest, wasn't home at the time of the crash. She was on her way home after an evening of playing cards in Navarre. As she neared her home, she could see flashing lights.

"We spotted all the emergency vehicles and this was what we came up on: a very, very bad wreck in my front yard," Clauss said. "(It's) unbelievable. It looks like a war zone."

"I've never seen so many vehicles in my life," said Raymond Vrabel, who lives with her.

As they got closer to their home, they could see the wreckage.

The vehicle had hit a 10-foot sign pole for the State Farm Insurance Agency next door. The pole was knocked down and then SUV evidently flipped up an embankment, rolled into her flagpole and nearly onto her small front porch, destroying the landscaping and decorations.

Alcohol bottles and clothes lay scattered across the parking lot of the insurance agency next door where, Clauss said, she also saw a child safety seat.

Some clothing hung in what remained of the rhododendron in front of her home. Large chunks of metal had pierced the siding on the north side of the house. Investigators pulled the metal from the siding, Clauss said.

Clauss said people speeding or driving drunk have been involved in crashes that tore up her yard several times now.

"This is the third time — no, fourth time — this has happened," she said. "I got up one Sunday morning and there was a police officer out here. A drunk driver tried to make a road between my house and the (insurance agency) building and he was stuck."

Of all the crashes, she said, "This is the worst one."

Clauss believes the driver was likely going too fast.



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Canton woman comes home to find fatal crash in her yard