House shuttered after accident

JERRY WOLKOWITZ Emad Nairooz checks the damage in his home on Union Hill Road, Marlboro, after a car came crashing through the garage and two rooms on Thursday.

Emad Nairooz of Union Hill Road, Marlboro, said he received a startling phone call from the Marlboro Police Department on Thursday afternoon. Police told him a motorist heading west on Union Hill Road near Millay Road lost control of his car and crashed through the garage of Nairooz’s home and into the laundry room and living room.

Police told him because of the structural damage the home suffered during the accident, he would have to find another place for his family to stay.

Despite all of this, Nairooz counted his blessings when he spoke with a reporter on Friday morning, less than 24 hours after the car had come rocketing into his home at the corner of Millay and Union Hill roads.

"My wife was in the kitchen cooking at the time and she was just about to do the laundry in the laundry room," Nairooz said. "And that’s where it hit."

Nairooz is the father of a 7-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy. Both children often play in the living room, but they were in the basement at the time of the accident, he said.

Police are investigating what caused Lahai Rogers, 33, of Old Bridge, to lose control of the vehicle.

Tire tracks on a neighbor’s lawn showed the path in which Rogers’ Honda Accord jumped a curb while heading west on Union Hill Road, hitting a mailbox before crossing Millay Road en route to the Nairooz house. The tracks lead straight between a cluster of trees and a fire hydrant before the curb on Millay Road.

The distance the car traveled across the lawns before it came to rest in the Nairooz house was about 258 feet, according to Marlboro Police Sgt. Joseph Lenge.

Rogers was not seriously injured in the accident, according to Lenge.

Nairooz said his wife was going to see a doctor on Friday for breathing problems resulting from smoke and dust inhalation caused by the accident. The family is now staying with relatives in Parlin.

On Friday, Lenge said no charges had been filed in connection with the accident.

— Karl Vilacoba