Residents Unhurt When Car Slams Through Wall

Startled by an explosive crash about noon Friday, John and Shelly Moore ran downstairs.

In the playroom of their Upper Ranch Road home, among the posters, hats and toys, was something very much out of the ordinary: a red Mazda RX-7.

The car had swerved off the road and hurtled through a wrought-iron fence, a garden and a wall of the Moores’ 7,600-square-foot home in one of the city’s most expensive neighborhoods.

Inside was Phyllis Lewis, a 56-year-old Thousand Oaks resident who lost control of the car at the corner of Oak Park Place after suffering a diabetic attack, authorities said.

“I’m shocked,” Shelly Moore said shortly after the accident. “The car just plowed through our house. . . . I just don’t know what to do.”

The car came to rest with its nose poking under a stairwell.

Lewis was taken to Columbia Los Robles Hospital complaining of a sore neck and back and was later released.

Ventura County Senior Sheriff’s Deputy Bill Therrien said Lewis most likely would not be charged.

The Moores were upstairs when the accident occurred and were not harmed. The couple’s three children were out of the house.

“I’m just glad everyone’s OK,” said Shelly Moore.