Phone call may have saved woman’s life

SUMMERFORD, Ohio – A woman says her life was likely saved when she answered a hang-up phone call.

Mary Dhume was watching television Monday night when the phone in the next room rang. She got up to answer it, but there was no one at the other end of the line.

Suddenly, she heard breaking glass and saw her living room wall collapse onto the chair where she’d been sitting.

A pickup truck had missed the curve on the road in front of Dhume’s home and smashed into the century-old house. Dhume said she saw the driver run away as she dialed 911.

Three hours later, State Highway Patrol troopers arrested Carlos Cummings, 41, of Mechanicsburg, on a charge of failing to control a vehicle.

“The phone ringing at that particular time? That’s one of those things people would never believe,” Dhume said. “Maybe it was God calling to tell me to get out of my living room.”