NEW ASHFORD — Michael Hall kicked off his shoes, lay down in his room at The Springs Motel and shut his eyes after a long drive north.

His light doze was interrupted by the crash of an SUV shattering the picture window and forcing its way through the wall.

The SUV had traveled across the motel's parking lot on June 26 at about 6 p.m., struck a heavy planter and then plowed through the motel room, raining glass shards down on the lawn.

In the room, Hall and his wife, Anne Crowley, suffered minor injuries. No cause had been determined as of Monday, and State Police would not release any information, including whether citations were issued.

A sport utility vehicle plowed through a window of a guest bedroom at The Springs Motel on June 26. No one was seriously injured.

Hall was lying perpendicular on the bed after making the drive from Washington, D.C., for a wedding. That decision might have saved him from serious injury, as the SUV hit the foot of the twin bed he was lying on and pushed it into the larger queen beside it.

A moment prior, Crowley had begun unpacking her possessions, walking back and forth across the room. At the moment of impact, she was seated across the room applying tanning cream to her legs.

Hall found himself face to face with the driver, who looked at him in shock.

By the time the SUV stopped moving, its front was pushing out the back wall. From the front, it looked as if it were parked in a garage. Crowley’s cellphone, which she had left on a marble table, was found lodged in the car's front grille.

“It was interesting, because it was so loud, so explosive, but then it wasn’t,” Crowley said. “You could hear the clicking of something in the car. Once it crashed and stopped, it came to a dead stop, I didn’t feel like there was imminent danger.”

Only one room was damaged after an SUV crashed through the picture window.

Crowley, wearing a top and underwear, was barefoot in a room suddenly covered in glass shards. She found Hall’s shoes, shook the glass out of them and walked out and began screaming.

Two people who’d witnessed the accident immediately came to her aid, and someone brought her a blue blanket.

The driver climbed out the back passenger door. Crowley hugged the driver first, and Hall followed.

“She was like, ‘I can’t believe what happened,’” Hall said the driver told him. She apologized as well. “I said, ‘it was an accident. It’s OK.’”

A passerby helped Hall extricate himself from the wreckage in the room, offering to have him step on his work boots.

Michael Hall and Anne Crowley were OK after an SUV crashed through their room at The Springs Motel.

The New Ashford Fire Department, the local building inspector and an ambulance responded to the scene, as well as State Police.

Springs Motel owner Brian Duke offered the couple his own room since the motel was fully booked for the wedding and for Wilco's Solid Sound Festival at Mass MoCA.

That night, the couple decided not to attend the welcome dinner for wedding guests. Instead, they sat on the patio at The Springs nursing drinks: beer for her, a gin and tonic for him.

“When we were sitting there having that first drink, I just realized if one of us had been standing in front of that window, or she had gone to the left or the right, it would have been maybe severe injury or worse,” Hall said.

“We sat there for like two hours on the patio, sort of being a little weepy,” Crowley said.

They ultimately skipped the wedding as well, just not feeling up to it the following day. Instead, they greeted the bride and groom at the goodbye brunch.

Brian Duke says things could have been "so much worse" after an SUV plowed through a guest room at The Springs Motel. He's the owner.

Duke was grateful for the response of the emergency workers, the building inspector, a contractor and, ultimately, his guests.

“This is a bad situation,” Duke said. “I was sort of left at the end of the weekend, despite a very unexpected and clearly a bad thing, almost feeling lucky that it just wasn't so much worse.”