A 52-year-old Catonsville man was taken to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center with non-life-threatening injuries June 15 after his car crashed into the stone steps of a house on Osborne Avenue, just down the street from his own home, police said.

Philip Fryer, of the 100 block of Osborne, was traveling south on the Catonsville street near the intersection with Summit Avenue around 2:20 p.m. when his right foot became “lodged against the accelerator” of his 2003 Honda Accord, said Louise Feher, a Baltimore County Police spokeswoman.

Fryer lost control of the car, which “uprooted a tree, sideswiped another tree, then continued across the property in front of the house and struck the stone front steps,” Feher said.

The car then rotated 120 degrees, Feher said, and came to rest in the yard of the home, at 18 Osborn Ave.

Eight fire and rescue units were dispatched to the scene at 2:24 p.m., but were unable to get Fryer out of his mangled car until 2:43 p.m., said Elise Armacost, a Baltimore County Fire Department spokeswoman.

Fryer was finally “extricated” from the vehicle and transported to Shock Trauma.

He was in "serious but stable condition" as of June 16, according to Shock Trauma spokeswoman Cindy Rivers.

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