Drunk driving charges are pending against a 23-year-old Burnaby man after a white Jeep crashed into a West Vancouver fire hall Saturday.
Police were called to the West Vancouver Fire Department’s Caulfeild Fire Station at 4895 Marine Dr. at about 11:30 a.m.
They arrived to find a late model Jeep Wrangler stuck in the station’s hose tower.
Witnesses told police the only occupant of the car, the driver, had taken off down Marine Drive after crashing into the building.
A 23-year-old Burnaby man was arrested at the side of the road on Piccadilly South and taken to hospital suffering non-life-threatening injuries.
“He had suffered some injuries, possibly some in the collision but also some injuries apparently from having fallen down a bit of a ravine off the side of the road at Marine Drive and Piccadilly South,” West Vancouver Police communications officer Const. Jeff Palmer told the NOW.
The man has since been released from custody and police will be recommending impaired driving charges, according to Palmer.
The Jeep, meanwhile, was pulled out of the side of the fire hall later Saturday afternoon after a structural engineer assessed the building.
No one was inside at the time of the crash as firefighters were out training.
