'It came in straight through the master bedroom': Transport truck slams into home in Nanoose Bay, B.C.

A transport truck driver was airlifted to hospital Monday after his truck slammed through a home in Nanoose Bay, B.C., narrowly missing residents.

Sarah Stoneman had just left her home in the 2400-block of Island Highway to walk over to her grandparents' property next door when she heard a loud crash behind her.

"I was a little bit in shock. I had just stepped next door to grab something and then I heard a big bang and went over," she said. "I was very confused and I was really grateful that I wasn’t inside, that no one was inside."

Stoneman says the truck came through the left side of the home, which is owned by her aunt, before coming to a rest deep inside the building.

"It came in straight through the master bedroom and collapsed the floor. The cab was suspended above the basement. Luckily one of the tenants who lives down there was on a flight back home and the other one was just at work – very fortunate that no one was down there," she said.

Traffic heading north on Highway 19 slowed to a crawl Monday afternoon after a semi-truck drove through this fence and then into a home near Nanoose Bay, B.C. (Marcy Lunn)

The big rig just narrowly missed hitting a home owned by Marcy Lunn, whose daughter was in bed with a newborn baby at the time.

"It’s been pretty messy and pretty traumatizing for us for sure," Lunn said.

"Her whole place shook and I was out walking the dog and all I could hear was this huge bang," she said. "I just came running and I could hear my daughter screaming my name -- 'Mom, mom, mom!' with her baby on her hip and then the frickin truck backfired and I was, ‘Get inside, get away from the truck!'"