DETROIT, MI -- A silver car slammed into an abandoned, burned, city-owned building on Linwood several days ago. The crushed auto carcass remained buried beneath the collapsed rubble of the structure Thursday.

About 10 a.m., three children were climbing in the wreckage at 8811 Linwood that is blocked off by yellow caution tape intended keep people away from the precarious slouching remains.

A red pickup with a City of Detroit logo on the door drove by, the driver glancing at the destruction.

City officials say it could take a month before the hazardous mess is cleaned up, Motor City Muckraker reported Wednesday.

MLive has requested comment from Mayor Mike Duggan's office and is awaiting response.

According to the Motor City Muckraker, the driver, after an hour-long rescue by the Detroit Fire Department that began shortly after midnight, survived the crash.

The building is listed as "reported" on the city's demolition list, which means it hadn't been slated to be razed but was reported as a dangerous structure.

The attached address, 8815 Linwood, also city-owned and a former church that burned, is scheduled for demolition.

"I noticed it yesterday," said Mrs. Brown (she wouldn't give her full name), who was working in a community garden named Buckets of Rain just south of the crash site. "The city takes property and doesn't keep it up, but they want people to keep up their property."