Car crashes into dry cleaners

Ball State student barely avoids accident on Bethel

A driver remains in unknown condition with a head injury at Ball Memorial Hospital after crashing his four-day old car into a dry cleaners.

Ball State University graduate student Sarah Kincheloe and friend Amanda Scott were driving westbound on Bethel Avenue, heading home from Starbucks, when John Caldwell's 2007 Cadillac crossed over the opposite lane cutting them off at about 4:30 p.m.,

Kincheloe said. Caldwell crashed in the back office of Vogue Cleaners, sending bricks and debris more than 50 feet from the building.

"It was in like a beeline for the building," she said.

The women were able to brake in time and avoided the accident, Kincheloe said. Both women were uninjured.

Vogue Cleaners employee Kristina Hawk said the building shook and began to fill with smoke after the accident.

Store owner Bill Shroyer said a desk, chair and several trophies were destroyed, along with the building's wall. Maintenance workers will board up the hole in the wall once the car is removed. The store is insured, he said.


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