Man dead after vehicle crashes into tree on Clarke Road

A 28-year-old man is dead after crash Tuesday morning that ended with a small car smashing into a tree on the boulevard of a Clarke Road home.

Emergency crews responded to the scene, just north of Dundas Street, around 6:20 a.m.

“My husband woke up, and he was like ‘did you just hear that bang?'” explained Tammy Dennett.

“So I got up out of my bed and looked out my bedroom window, and said ‘oh my god, someone just hit a tree.'”

Wally Dennett and their adult son, Terry, went outside to check on the driver.

A heavily damaged black Mini Cooper remained on their front lawn around 8:30 a.m., as London police’s traffic reconstruction unit took measurements off the scene.

Police had blocked off a wide stretch of sidewalk, extending from just north of a corner gas station all the way to a construction area where Clarke Road intersects with Avalon Road.

Tammy Dennett says someone else, who almost struck the vehicle, called 911, and that the passenger side door had to be cut open to extricate the driver.

“I’m a little shaken,” she said.

London police have reopened Clarke Road between Dundas Street and Avalon Street. In a separate incident, police say a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle at the Dundas Street and Clarke Road intersection shortly before 8 a.m., and was taken to hospital with minor injuries.