Jacqueline DeVite believes that if she had been sleeping in her bed Friday morning, she might be dead today.

DeVite was away for the night when a box truck carrying mail crashed into her house at 6047 N. Edinburg Road around 5:35 a.m., destroying her bed, her bedroom, and the basement and cracking most of the walls inside the house.

The head of DeVite’s bed was right where the truck crashed through the wall, she said. “He hit right where my head would have been. There’s no way I would have survived it.”

“The truck was totally inside the house,” Mahoning Township fire chief Francis “Poncho” Exposito said. He said DeVite’s bed was crushed.

Truck carrying mail crashes into house