2025-08-16

Guardrail saves family from yet another car crashing into Amarillo home

AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Police say speed and alcohol are a factor in a weekend crash that sent two people to jail.

The driver of a white Corvette C8 lost control and crashed on the S curved road by the Amarillo Country Club.

A white Corvette C8 crashed near Amarillo Country Club on Aug. 16 (Source: Viewer Photo)(Paige Stockton)

Police took the driver, 57-year-old Paula Jean Gomez, to the Potter County Detention Center where she was booked in for a charge of driving while intoxicated.

Police took the driver, 57-year-old Paula Jean Gomez, to the Potter County Detention Center where she was booked in for a charge of driving while intoxicated. (Source: Potter County Jail)(Potter County Jail)

Police also took the passenger, Florentino Paul Gonzales, to the Randall County Jail where he was booked in on a charge of public intoxication.

Both were released by the next day.

Gomez crashed her sports car on a dangerous curve that has a long history of crashes --more specifically, cars crashing into the house that sits by the curve.

Speed and alcohol were factors in a wreck that resulted in a totaled Corvette C8 and the arrest of two people. (Source: Viewer Photo) (Paige Stockton)

Earlier this year, when three cars crashed into the Mitchener family’s home in just six weeks, they approached the City of Amarillo for help.

Working together with the family, the City, along with TxDOT, installed a guardrail along the road’s curve.

The scene of the wreck the next day with debris cleared. (Source: Larry Thurman)(Larry Thurman)

The white Corvette’s crash was absorbed by the guardrail that was installed just three weeks prior, with no damage to the Mitchener home.

It is unclear when new guardrail will be installed.