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From: pot.news@latimes.com

A Nissan sedan became airborne and crashed into a California
dental office on Sunday morning, coming to rest dangling out of
the building’s second story, the authorities said.

The police in Santa Ana, Calif., said the car clipped a median
outside the building and flew about 60 feet before slamming into
the 17th Street Dental Office.

The crash, which happened at about 5:25 a.m., rattled guests in
a motel next door but the dental practice was closed at the time.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department used a specialized
forklift and wrecker to remove the car, the police said. One of
the two people inside the vehicle was able to exit on his own,
but emergency workers had to remove the other person, a police
spokesman said.

The driver told officers he had used drugs before the crash and
was taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries, the
police said. The spokesman said that the authorities had filed a
charge of driving under the influence but that the driver had
not yet been arraigned because he was in the hospital.

The passenger also sustained minor injuries.

On Sunday afternoon, the car was gone from the building but a
giant hole remained on the second floor of the dental office.
The owner of the practice could not be reached for comment.

A woman who works at the motel next door said it was fortunate
the motel was unscathed. “Inside, it’s a major loss,” the woman,
who declined to provide her name, said. “It’s a big hole.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/us/car-crash-santa-ana.html

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