Police in Columbia, Lancaster County, are looking for a driver who crashed a car into a house and drove away.The crash happened around 11:10 p.m. Sunday in the 400 block of Cherry Street.Police said the impact caused significant damage to the building, making it unsafe for the residents to stay there.A man and a young child were asleep on the second floor and were not injured, according to police.Investigators believe the vehicle involved was a Lexus and has front-end damage.Anyone with information is asked to call the Columbia Borough Police at 717-684-7735.
COLUMBIA, Pa.
Police in Columbia, Lancaster County, are looking for a driver who crashed a car into a house and drove away.
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LEWISTOWN- Emergency crews were dispatched to a motor vehicle crash on Sunday at 6:30 a.m., on 1409 US Hwy 522 North. It was reported that a vehicle had struck an occupied single-story residence with several trapped inside the residence. Crews arrived on scene and began to extricate the occupants of the residence and the vehicle operator. Police determined that a 2009 Audi operated by Katie Hammond, 31, of Lewistown, was traveling southbound on US 522 when it left the roadway and struck several parked cars before going airborne and crashed into the home of the Todaro family.
The structure sustained severe damage. Hammond’s vehicle also sustained severe front-end damage. No occupants of the home were injured as a result of the crash. Hammond was transported to Geisinger-Lewistown Hospital for treatment. Mifflin County Regional Police Department was assisted on-scene by Chief Logan Fire Co, City Hook & Ladder Fire Co, Derry Township Fire Police,