Cars strike houses in 2 separate crashes in N.J. town [Video]

In more than 20 years as a volunteer firefighter, Chief Scott Smith has witnessed some pretty traumatic events and experienced his share of dangerous situations. But nothing like what happened to him and his 5-year-old son on Saturday.

Smith said he and son were sitting on the living room couch on Ridge Road in South Brunswick at about 4:30 p.m., when a compact car crashed into the front wall of the house a few feet from them, right where his son had just been playing on the floor.

“Where the car hit the house there’s kind of bay window, and there’s a chair right there that he had been playing in front of, and it sent that chair flying across the living room,” said Smith, 42, chief of the Monmouth Junction Volunteer Fire Department, named for that section of South Brunswick. “I’ve seen some things, yea, but I’ve never experienced …