A driver who allegedly crashed a car into the side of a small hotel at the top of the University Bridge and then fled the scene on foot has been located by police.
He was found hours after the Tuesday morning crash at a hospital where he was seeking medical treatment for non-life-threatening injuries. He checked himself in to the hospital at 11:30 a.m., according to police.
Police say he fled after the car, a BMW travelling up the bridge, left the road and busted through the fence of an empty lot, hit The Inn on College and flipped onto a parked vehicle. Officers were called to the scene, at College Drive and Clarence Avenue, at about 3:20 a.m.
The driver was the only occupant of the car.
No one was in the parked vehicle at the time of the crash and, according to the hotel’s owners, a person inside the room struck by the BMW was not hurt. The car narrowly missed a SaskEnergy meter on the building.
Speed was believed to be a factor in the crash, police say.
No charges had been laid as of Tuesday afternoon.
Not sure what happened here. Just off College & Clarence #yxe pic.twitter.com/PzO26yZZb7
— John Thronberg (@JThronbergCTV) August 23, 2016
Car traveling at a high rate of speed up University Bridge left the road & hit the corner of this building at 4 am pic.twitter.com/AYpu0kdnDR
— John Thronberg (@JThronbergCTV) August 23, 2016
Apparently, the driver walked away from this. Someone was also in the bedroom but wasn't injured. pic.twitter.com/8rMwBRmJ4F
— John Thronberg (@JThronbergCTV) August 23, 2016
The car just missed the @SaskEnergy meter on the corner of the house outside the bedroom. Everyone walked away. pic.twitter.com/nGnlh66chB
— John Thronberg (@JThronbergCTV) August 23, 2016