Millcreek Couple Seeks Answers Following Fatal Crash Inside their Home

On Sunday morning, Ashley and Scott Jang woke up to devastation.

"I thought I was in a nightmare, and when I looked down, it looked like what hell would look like, with the red and the explosion and bomb," said Mrs. Jang.  "I thought I was in a dream and a nightmare.  It couldn't have been real."

The couple soon realized realized that an SUV had crashed into their home at the intersection of Cherry Street and West Gore Road, and caught fire.

"He ran upstairs and started yelling somebody hit the house, somebody hit the house," said Mrs. Jang.  "I ran down the stairs and looked down.  It looked like a bomb went off."

The couple then grabbed their dog Hamilton and fled their home.

"I ran out calling 911 screaming," said Mrs. Jang.  "He ran up and got the dog because he was sleeping upstairs.  90 percent of the time, he sleeps downstairs on the couch.  Very grateful for that and he ran up and got him and we were out."

The driver---identified as 38-year-old Robert Corbett of Millcreek---was killed in the crash.

According to Millcreek Police Chief Carter Mook, this isn't the first time a vehicle has crashed into this home.

"In the course of my 30-year career, I recall two fatal accidents at that location," said Chief Mook.  "The house has been hit on at least one other occasion I can find on record."

Back in 2021, Millcreek Police also conducted swat training inside of the house, which at the time was owned by the Erie County Land Bank.

According to the Jangs--who moved to Erie from out of town back in April---the history of the home was never disclosed.

"It's not our job to figure out what should have been fixed," said Mrs. Jang.  "This is a 30-year problem that everyone in the community informed us about after we bought the house, because they're like, you need to get boulders, and we were like we can't get boulders.  We're just sitting ducks."

Mrs. Jang shared her future plans for the home.

"Erie Insurance says it is somehow salvageable," said Mrs. Jang.  "I don't know how, but it needs to be knocked down and no one live here because we're sitting ducks.  I'm not going to do what they did to us and not disclose that someone has died in here, under us...and then have someone else be sitting ducks, not on my conscience."