Photo of the wrecked Camaro provided by Toni Fruth.

One person was hospitalized after a red Camaro smashed into a parked car and spun out into a garage near the intersection of H Street and Madrone Avenue in Eureka around 7 a.m.

The Camaro was reported to be traveling at a high rate of speed when it lost control and breifly caught air while cresting over the hill on H Street. The driver then rear ended a blue sedan before spinning out across a lawn and crashing into a garage three houses over.

Eureka Police, Humboldt Bay Fire, and paramedics were dispatched to the scene.

Brent Knapek, who lives next door to the woman whose car was destroyed, said she was just minutes away from getting in her car to go to work.

Photo of the demolished sedan provided by Brian Prigmore.

“I heard someone hauling down the street at least 100 miles-per hour, so I opened the window to see what was going on,” Knapek said. “Then all of a sudden I saw an out-of-control car slam into the neighbor’s car parked on the street.”

Knapek rushed outside to find the driver unconscious, with his head on the passenger seat floor.

Knapek was among a group of neighbors who hurried outside barefoot to witness the aftermath, and photograph their property damage.

H Street resident Brian Prigmore, who spent his morning picking shards of glass from his feet, said reckless drivers make simple tasks like backing out of the driveway a hazardous situation.

“Speeding is a constant problem,” Prigmore said. “We’re sitting ducks.”

Photo provided by Brian Prigmore.

Residents like Toni and Dave Fruth, who have lived at the bottom of the H street hill for 20 years, said they’re tired of the city’s lack of police presence in the neighborhood.

“The city just spent taxpayer money changing the speed sign from 35 to 30 mph, and it doesn’t make a difference,” Toni Fruth said as her husband swept up pieces of their busted garage. “You see it all the time. It’s out of hand on this street, and it’s not being monitored.”

Tom Byas, who lives next door to the Fruths, said he’s decided to move because the street is too dangerous.

“I’ve been here two years, and not one time have I seen a cop parked looking for speeders,” Byas said. “If that guy had hit my van, it would have taken out my steps, hit [the Fruth’s] gas main, and blown us all up.”

Dave Fruth Sweeps shards of wood from his garage. John Ross Ferrara

20 year-resident Dave Fruth mends his sod. John Ross Ferrara