ATASCOCITA, Texas—An Atascocita family of three woke up at about 3:15 a.m. Thursday to a big bang. 

When they opened their front door, they say they found a black car crashed into the pillar of their house. 

“When I went outside I tried helping the driver,” said homeowner Lucas Saucedo.   “By that time my wife had called 911.”

The driver was airlifted to Hermann Hospital in critical condition, and the passenger was taken into custody for questioning.

“We are looking at alcohol or drugs or anything that we can find as far as any type of impairment in the driver,” said Harris County Deputy Derek Wilkie.

The passenger told deputies that he and the driver were heading home after playing dominoes at a friend’s house.  While the two were traveling east on Will Clayton Parkway, the driver lost control. The car hit the guardrail, went through a ditch, ran through a fence, drove over a vacant lot and the street and crashed straight into the Saucedo’s front pillar.

“We are lucky that it didn’t happen during the day when kids would be playing outside,” said Saucedo.

Saucedo, who has an 18-month old child, said luckily they were all sleeping in a bedroom in the back side of the house when the car crashed.

The names of the driver and the passenger have not been released.