Driver cited after car crashes into Colorado Springs house
Alcohol was not a factor when a car crashed into a house in northeast Colorado Springs Sunday, but the driver was cited by police.
Melissa Huntley was cited for careless driving and taken to the hospital, along with a female passenger, for minor injuries, Colorado Springs police said.
Someone called 911 about 11:45 p.m. and said a car had crashed into a residence, police said.
According to police reports, Huntley was traveling east on North Carefree Circle about 11:45 p.m. and struck the back of a home on the 5000 block Whip Trail, damaging the house.
No one in the house was injured and police said alcohol was not involved in the wreck.
Students in Angie Bates’s fifth grade class work on their iPads during a class at Mountain View Elementary School in Colorado Springs, Colorado on Friday, September 20, 2013. (Kent Nishimura/The Gazette)