
St. Louis firefighters responded to the call on Sunday and had to carefully remove the man from the roof, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
An aerial view of the SUV on the roof. He said the home, which may never again be habitable, has been in his family for 40 years.
And in a truly devastating turn of events, Redding had just paid off his mortgage.
Redding said the intersection in front of his house is unsafe and it's not the first time a vehicle has come barreling onto the property. I'll talk to my insurance people and we'll just take it one step at a time'.
He added: "The good thing is, I'm alive".
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'I had a auto smash, turn my railing off.
A Missouri resident's gym schedule may have helped him to dodge death, after an SUV tore through the roof of his house while he was attending a workout session.
Michael Arras, the department's deputy chief of special operations, told St Louis Post-Dispatch it was like nothing he had ever seen.
"We had accessed the roof and the structure to see if it was safe to get on the roof", Arras said.
"So, my initial thought was to find out if he was in the house", said Terrell Jones, who lives directly to the left of Redding. His house is insured. He was told the SUV sped down Mimika Avenue to where that street ends in a T-intersection in front of his home.