A car crashed into a home in San Carlos Park in Lee County Wednesday morning. A cleanup crew is on the scene fixing the home. San Carlos Park Fire District responded to the crash at a home on the northwest corner of Lee Road and Harrisburg Drive just after 10:30 a.m. That house has a lot of damage to it. The person in the car had minor injuries. The woman who owns the home said the driver was headed north on Lee Road in San Carlos Park when his brakes gave out. Instead of easing up on the gas, he took a sharp left turn directly into her home on Harrisburg Drive. This is not how anyone wants to start the day, but this is how Carole Mathis of San Carlos Park started hers. She heard the crash, then saw the aftermath. “It was a little after 10,” Mathis said. “And I was getting ready for work back in my bathroom, and I heard this loud, very loud noise.” That noise came from the car that plowed through her garage wall and into her car. WINK News asked San Carlos Park Fire what caused the crash. “That we don’t know. So in the instance of a motor vehicle crash, our role is to provide patient care first and foremost,” said San Carlos Park Fire Public Information Officer Alexis McLellan. Mathis said the driver claimed his brakes failed and he lost control. When he couldn’t stop, the wall to her home stopped the car for him. One side of Mathis’ garage is now in shambles. “Left a big hole. It’s done structural damage. I can’t get my car out because of all the debris that’s in front and around my car,” Mathis said. “I guess I just pray everything goes smoothly, that’s all. I guess that’s all I can say. I mean, I’ve been doing that, so I hope others will as well,” Mathis said. An emergency disaster response service arrived in the afternoon. The crew spent a couple of hours picking up most of the debris left behind. Mathis said she is working with the driver’s insurance company to make repairs to her home. Mathis also had thanks to offer to the witnesses who stayed there after the crash. “There was a young lady that… I think she was going in the opposite direction, but she saw what happened, so she pulled in my driveway and stayed until the police left,” Mathis said. “Until the fire people left, and then one of my neighbors that lives down Lee [Road] here came over and stayed, you know, until everything was cleared with the police department and the fire department, and I just really wanted to thank both of them… really appreciate them doing that.”