CASPER — The adage that the three most important things in real estate are “location, location, location” couldn’t be more true for a local house that kept getting hit by cars.
For the house at a T intersection in the 1300 block of 13th Street in Casper, that location meant has meant vehicles misjudging the road and plowing into the house. Multiple times.
That is impossible now because the house is gone.
Owner Robert Lara told Cowboy State Daily on March 10 after the latest time his house was hit that it would probably the last. An SUV had gone through the intersection and plowed through the entrance of the unoccupied and boarded up home.
That was the third time the house at the intersection of McKinley and 13th streets had been hit.
Lara was right about it being the last.
A neighbor confirmed to Cowboy State Daily that it was torn down a couple months ago.
Had Hoped To Remodel
Lara could not be reached for comment Tuesday, but said previously that he had lived in the home, but another incident with a vehicle sent he and his family to a rental home in Mills. They bought another house, but said he was hoping to remodel the 13th and McKinley home.
“We were going to have to remodel it and now it’s probably going to have to come down,” he said. “The car went all the way through, went through the bedroom, went through the closet, bathroom and hit the kitchen wall. It only had eight feet before it went out the back.”
The home had a basement and Lara said he was surprised that the floor held the weight of the SUV.
Now the lot only has a small building in the back and mobile trailer, but cars going through the intersection will have to travel further and dodge a tree before striking a small structure in the back of the property.
“This corner is really, really bad,” Lara said in March.
Contact Dale Killingbeck at dale@cowboystatedaily.com
