“As bad as it was … he could have sailed through to (U.S. Business) 98,” said Rene Ouellette. “Imagine if he would have hit a family or some poor guy on his way to work.”Panama City police said Darryl Lee Rogers, 24, of 1706 E. Sixth St. in Panama City, lost control of a 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer as he traveled south on East Avenue at about 1 a.m. Friday. The vehicle smashed into a blue Chevrolet Malibu parked in Ouellette’s yard at 617 N. East Ave. and pushed it about 10 feet.

The Trailblazer then went airborne, hitting the roof of Ouellette’s porch and causing it to collapse. The vehicle blasted through a wooden fence and entered the front yard of 613 N. East Ave., where it began to flip end over end, hitting a 2008 Expedition and a 2007 Dodge Ram. The Trailblazer also smacked that home, hit a tree and landed on the roof of a third home, police said.

The two vehicles and the second home belonged to Jeffrey and Mona Farver Jr. The third home, at 611 N. East Ave., is owned by Farver’s parents, Jeffrey and Helen Farver Sr.

Witnesses told investigators that Rogers was ejected from the vehicle, into a tree and landed in a flower bed. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The crash still is under investigation, police said.

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