Horizontal boring machine flung onto home's porch during NEMO crash

A distracted-driving crash on Highway 63 ends with a boring machine flung onto a home's front porch.

It happened at 8:30 a.m. Monday at the intersection of Highway 63 and Macon County Route T, one mile east of Excello, Missouri.

Sgt. Eric Brown told KTVO a pickup driven by a 62-year-old Macon man was traveling south on 63, pulling a flatbed trailer loaded with a horizontal boring machine.

As the truck was slowing to turn onto Route T, a pickup truck driven by a 51-year-old man from Cameron, Missouri, rear-ended the towed unit.

The impact ripped the boring machine off the trailer and flung it partially onto the front porch of a home at that intersection.

The Cameron man told troopers he was distracted by the radio in his truck and did not see the truck and trailer slowing in front of him.

No injuries were reported. The Cameron man's pickup had extensive front-end damage.

The house had minor damage to some bricks and the front porch railing.

The impact also destroyed shrubs on the property and made gouges in the fresh asphalt driveway.