“Dude, I crashed my car,” said a voice from the driveway of the Johns’ home on Poison Oak Drive in Temple shortly after Johns called out to see if anybody was hurt in the wreck that knocked bricks, glass and drywall across his bedroom. But he can’t be sure.

By the time somebody from inside the house got outside there was only the car and a broken Budweiser bottle lying on Johns’ well-manicured lawn, a few feet from the skid marks that showed the car’s path to his bedroom.

Its driver, a man police identified as 19-year-old Kenneth James Jones of Temple, was gone.

Police said they found Jones with minor injuries to his hands and face two hours later walking in the 6500 block of Texas 317.

Johns and his wife, Ross Ann, were not injured in the wreck.

“I was in bed by the wall,” Johns said, “it pushed the wall a foot from my leg.”

Johns, who walks with a cane, said his wife initially thought he had gotten up in the night and fallen through the window at the foot of their bed. It wasn’t until she flipped the light on that the couple saw the black 1999 Ford Contour protruding into their bedroom.

Jones was being held in Bell County Jail on a public intoxication charge. He is on parole for burglary and drug possession convictions from last March.

The police investigation concluded that Jones was speeding on Ridgeway Road, which deadends into Poison Oak Drive, and lost control before slamming into Johns’ house.

Orange spray paint marked a curb on Ridgeway. Johns said the car jumped the curb there, popped its tire and turned sideways. The orange marks in the roadway indicate the car skidded across Poison Oak Drive. Johns said it clipped an apple tree in his yard, hit his wife’s car that was parked in the driveway and finally came to rest at the foot of his bed.

“If my wife’s car hadn’t been there to catch the blow,” he said, “he would have been in the kitchen.”

His wife’s Toyota Camry, with damage on its right side, was still in the driveway just before noon on Tuesday as an insurance adjuster snapped pictures of the damage to the house and took notes.

A construction company came later and cleaned up debris and placed plywood over the hole in the house.

The damage is expected to be fixed soon, but Johns is concerned that growth in the area has placed him at risk. He said he has lived in his home since 1977, but that about two years ago a new housing development - The Carriage House Village - was built across the street.

“They built the road in our bedroom window,” he said, referring to Ridgeway.

His father bought a house and 10 acres of pasture on Poison Oak Road in 1969, he said.

“We moved here to be out in the country.”