A two-vehicle collision at Avenue E and Road 10 on Monday morning resulted in damage to both vehicles and a nearby house.

Matthew Hayek, 22, of Rock River was driving south on Road 10 shortly before 9 a.m. when he failed to stop for the stop sign, and his Chevrolet pickup struck the driver’s side of a white Volvo driven by Kianna Shaffer, 19, of Powell.

The Volvo then crashed through a vinyl fence at the southeast corner of the intersection and went into the backyard of a home in the Whispering Pines subdivision, where it struck a corner of the house. The careening car knocked the gas meter off the side of the house and damaged a bathroom wall, shoving cabinets out of place and causing the toilet to leak.

The house is rented by Jenkins and Heather Clarkson.

Heather Clarkson said their daughter, Mckenzie, was ill and had stayed home from school Monday.

“She’d had a fever and was asleep,” Clarkson said. When the car hit the corner of the house, “she almost thought she had woken up from a dream.”

She was unaware of what had happened until someone knocked on the door and said, “Do you realize your house was hit by a car?” Clarkson said. “She said no, he said she needed to get out. Then she called me.”

While the crash was an unwelcome surprise on her birthday, Clarkson said responders and utility workers were very helpful, making the experience as pleasant as it could be.

“Firemen were looking at their phones and giving me numbers to call” for help, she said. “Everything was fixed by 3:30.”

Clarkson said this was the third crash at that intersection she is aware of since the family moved there a year and a half ago, and that’s a worry for her.

“They really need to do something,” she said. “This has gotten out of hand. ... If my kids had been outside playing and had gotten hit, that would have killed somebody.”

Powell police have investigated six crashes at Avenue E (Lane 9) and Road 10 (Tower Boulevard) in the past three years. The Park County Sheriff’s Office has investigated five.

However, Powell Police Chief Roy Eckerdt said not all of the accidents the department responded to were caused by passing traffic. A couple of them occurred when vehicles hit curbs while backing up, he said.