The wife's body was discovered inside the home in San Diego's Bay Park neighborhood after the Toyota Tacoma plowed through the front wall and sparked a fire early Monday.
The terrifying ordeal unfolded when the black vehicle suddenly started sliding on the icy roadway in Lake Tahoe and then nose-dived down the embankment.
The chaos unfolded in the city's sleepy Outer Sunset neighborhood just after 4:30 a.m. on Saturday when dozens swarmed the area for the raucous street takeover, cops said.