Bonita Stark was awake in her bed when a truck plowed into her house about 3 a.m. Sunday and seriously injured her sleeping daughter.

14-year-old Lois Pruitt was asleep in her bed when the driver of a truck lost control on U.S. 72 West and barreled into her bedroom.

The teen-ager suffered several broken bones – arms, her right leg and collarbone. She was in serious condition Monday in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Huntsville Hospital for Women and Children, said a hospital spokeswoman.

“She’s sleeping right now,” Mrs. Stark said from the hospital Monday night. “She has been talking and responding to everybody. She’s not too happy.”

The accident is still fresh in Mrs. Stark’s mind.

“I was awake in bed,” she said. “It just shook the house real bad. We have two big trees in front of the house and I thought one of them fell. My husband and I jumped up and ran toward the living room and hollered for my brother and he came out. Then we hollered for my daughter and she didn’t respond. My brother went to her room and he started screaming. The truck was in her room. She was in her bed and it flipped the mattress onto her and it pushed all the debris and everything up against her and pushed it through her closet, through the hall closet and into my husband’s office. She was asleep when it happened and it knocked her unconscious, but we were screaming loud enough to scare her and then she was conscious. Since then she has been in and out of it because they have given her medicine for the pain.”

Since the accident, the Clements High School eighth-grader has had surgery twice to install rods in her left arm and right leg. She still has to have surgery on her right arm, her mother said.

Emergency personnel at the scene of the accident said they had to get through the rubble before they could help Pruitt.

“She was asleep on her bed and it took the rescue squad and the fire department an hour to get to her, said Mike West, director of emergency services at Athens-Limestone Hospital. “She had several fractures.”

The accident occurred about 3 a.m. Sunday morning 8 miles west of Athens.

William Michael, 18, of Elkmont, lost control of his 1999 Dodge truck, traveled off the road and into a house at 10073 72 West, said West and a state trooper spokeswoman.

“The driver fell asleep or lost control and went through the child’s bedroom,” West said.

Pruitt was taken to Athens-Limestone County Hospital and stabilized, then transferred by MedFlight to Huntsville Hospital.

Michael and his passenger, Cameron Parker, 18, of Athens, were treated at Athens-Limestone Hospital and released, said a hospital spokeswoman.

Pruitt’s mother, Bonita Stark, her stepfather, James Stark, and her uncle, James Mansell, were home at the time of the accident but were not injured.