A local man was cited after a car he was driving struck a central Salina residence early this morning.
At 2:20 a.m. Thursday, officers were sent to a residence in the 800 block of W. Prescott Avenue for the report of a vehicle striking a house.
It appeared that the vehicle was traveling northbound in the 600 block of S. Phillips Avenue and failed to negotiate a left hand turn onto W. Prescott Avenue. The vehicle jumped the curb and struck a wheelchair ramp, flag pole, and the exterior wall of the house. The flag pole was broken off, the ramp was destroyed, and the wall of the residence was cracked and partially caved in, Forrester noted.
The resident, a 61-year-old female, was not injured, he added.
The vehicle, a 2008 Honda Civic, had left the scene. Officers were able to track the fluid leak from the vehicle to the area of W. Franklin Street and Seneca Avenue, but did not locate the vehicle there. Later this morning, officers located the unoccupied vehicle near the intersection of Foxboro Drive and W. Schilling Road.
According to Forrester, officers made contact with the registered owner of the vehicle, Thomas Cole, 31, of Salina, at his nearby residence in the 1300 block of Kingston Drive and issued citations related to the collision.
Estimated damage to the residence has yet to be determined, Forrester reported. The Civic had major front-end damage.