Man has life-threatening injuries after driving car into house

A 21-year-old Sioux Falls man has life-threatening injuries after he crashed his vehicle into a home Wednesday morning.

The man was driving a 2001 Chrysler 300 north on Leadale Avenue when he failed to negotiate a curve and hit a curb, grazed a tree and struck a house at First Street and Leadale at 3:30 a.m, police spokesman Sam Clemens said.

The vehicle flipped in the air and landed upside down in the side of the house and came to rest in the garage.

The driver was hospitalized with a skull fracture.

Two people in the house at the time of the crash were not injured.

Speed is a factor, but is unknown as of 8:45 a.m. how fast he was driving. Alcohol is also thought to be a factor.

Clemens said the house was also struck by a car in 2015. Since 2010, there have been four crashes in the area, all likely caused by excessive speeds.

Sioux Falls Fire Rescue checked the home's structure and did some shoring on the house to stabilize it.

This is a developing story.