VIDEO: Cars Will Not Stop Crashing Through The Roof Of The Veterans Hall In Excelsior Springs, Missouri
KMBC — A car went airborne and crashed into the roof of an Excelsior Springs veterans hall early Wednesday – the second car to do so in just a few months.
Excelsior Springs police said around 7:20 a.m., a man was driving on Linwood Avenue when he failed to stop at St. Louis Avenue. His car then went airborne over the road, crashing into the Clay-Ray Veterans Hall.
If an airborne car comes crashing through the roof of your veterans hall once, shame on them. If an airborne car comes crashing through the roof of your veterans hall for the second time in three months, shame on you. Maybe you shouldn't have built your veterans hall in a flying car air space.
Miraculously, the driver, who according to the description seems to have essentially ramped his vehicle from the intersection of Linwood & Kimball, all the way over the guardrail on the far side of St. Louis Avenue (see depiction below).
Somehow that driver was able to walk himself out of his vehicle and into an ambulance under his own power. On top of that, there wasn't a single person inside the veterans building at the time of the crash.
CBS – The driver of the car was injured but was able to walk to an ambulance before going to the hospital, CBS affiliate KCTV reported. Police told KCTV they were investigating whether the driver had a medical emergency or was otherwise impaired.
There was no one inside the hall at the time of the incident, police said. The collision was captured by cameras at the Lewis Elementary School, which sits adjacent to the hall. School was not in session at the time of the incident, police said.
Which is almost as crazy as the first time this happened back in February, when a registered sex offender led cops on a high-speed chase, veered off the road, and crashed through the roof at 100 miles per hour with two passengers in the car with him (yes they were underaged girls who he'd reportedly drove over an hour to buy alcohol for), and all three of them survived the incident.
KCTV – Hollis said one of the girls had messaged him in an open Snapchat forum asking if he could get her and her friend alcohol. After driving more than an hour to pick them up, he drove back toward Excelsior Springs. Hollis told law enforcement that he thought he was taking the girls to their friends’ house since one of the girls was giving him turn-by-turn directions.
When a police vehicle pulled up behind him, Hollis said he panicked because he was not licensed. Hollis was on felony probation out of Johnson County, Kansas, for having sexual relations with a minor, had served three years in prison and is a registered sex offender.
A chase ensued for about a minute before the driver veered off the side of Linwood Road. The Excelsior Police Department said the vehicle went airborne and crashed into the roof of the Veterans of Foreign Wars building. Hollis and the two 13-year-olds were rescued from the wreckage.
The teens were taken to Children’s Mercy Hospital for their injuries, and one of them suffered a broken collarbone and multiple spinal fractures, the court document stated.
The probable cause document stated that Hollis was driving more than 90 mph through Excelsior Springs and reached 100 mph when the car went off the road and crashed into the building.
Credit to the Excelsior Springs' veterans hall for constructing a roof with such soft, vehicle catching hands. But it may be time to consider relocation. As great as your roof is at absorbing flying cars, and as much as it legitimately may have saved four lives, having to redo your roof at the rate of four-times annually is simply not sustainable. Above all else, unless the Veteran's Health Administration plans on significantly stepping up their healthcare game, it's unfair to ask our troops to keeping showing up to a veterans hall that frequently rains cars through the ceiling.
And lastly… I kinda hate to do this because I feel like I reference this story in every other blog, but I can't not mention it whenever a building is crashed into twice in quick succession… shoutout to one of my all-time favorite pieces of Barstool Sports lore, when the same woman drove her car into the Barstool Sports' Milton office on two separate occasions.
Some buildings are just car magnets. If you ever find yourself about to purchase property at a price that seems too good to be true, you gotta do your due diligence to find out why. Cars crashing through the roof on a regular basis is something a realtor will do whatever they can to keep from disclosing. I'd argue that's a worse problem than ghosts. Stay safe out there veterans of Excelsior Springs, Missouri. And do whatever you can to strong arm your local government into building a concrete wall along the side of the road. If two cars plummeting through your roof twice in the first half of 2025 isn't enough to get the City of Excelsior Springs to open their checkbook, then maybe it's time to find a new location.
