Community is raising money for families displaced after a pickup truck accident at an Antioch home

The church is raising money for a family displaced from their Antioch home after a pickup truck crashed there, causing serious damage and sending two of them to the hospital.

The Antioch Fire Department responded to the 300 block of North Avenue in Antioch on October 11th at approximately 4:33 p.m. for a report of a car ramming into a building.

Joe DuShane, chief of the Antioch Fire Department Battalion, said an elderly couple was driving east on North Avenue from Main Street in a pickup truck.

The male driver began a coughing fit and passed out while driving, DuShane said.

The pickup left the road and crashed into a duplex on the southeast corner of North Avenue and Dwight Court.

DuShane said there were people on the first and second floors of the home at the time of the accident. They were able to be evacuated and remained uninjured.

Police and firefighters helped the passenger out of the badly damaged truck.

The female passenger and male driver were both transported by ambulance to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, DuShane said. They did not suffer any life-threatening injuries.

Firefighters had to stabilize the home before a tow truck pulled the truck from the home, causing damage to the foundation and frame structure.

A board-up company was called to the scene, DuShane said. The house was considered uninhabitable for the four residents.

Tiffany Felten said her mother, 63, and younger brother, 22, are currently homeless and cannot afford to stay in a hotel.

The family who lived upstairs also cannot enter their home to collect belongings until further notice because it is too dangerous to go up the stairs.

“The house was rocking back and forth the last time they left it,” Felten said.

Felten, who has lived in Antioch for six years, created a GoFundMe account to raise money for her family.