Jarms Pump Service building, 4 1st St., was damaged when a Suzuki crashed into a sidewall and garage bay door.
Stephen Michael Foster lies on the ground while Cheney responders discuss the crash he was involved in that damaged three vehicles and sent one careening into Jarms Pump Service building late Tuesday afternoon, March 2.
CHENEY - A local man was booked into the Spokane County Jail on Tuesday afternoon, March 2, following a crash that sent a car careening into a building.
Stephen Michael Foster, 37, was booked into the jail at 4:36 p.m. after being arrested on probable charges of driving while under the influence, third-degree driving while license suspended and operating a motor vehicle without ignition interlock.
According to a police report, witnesses said they saw a Dodge Durango eastbound on West 1st Street, approaching the merge lane near Cheney-Plaza road at a high rate of speed.
The driver of that vehicle was later identified as Foster, police said.
As the vehicle entered the merge area, it side-swiped a Ford pickup, went onto a sidewalk and rear-ended a Suzuki SX4, police said.
The driver of the much smaller Suzuki lost control of and the vehicle, which careened along Union Street and slammed into the Jarms Pump Service building at 4 1st St., police said. The car struck the cinderblock walk and impacted a garage bay door.
It came to rest partially inside the building, police said, noting the driver was transported to a Spokane hospital with complaints of neck pain.
The name of the injured driver was not immediately available; the airbags in her vehicle deployed.
There was damage to all three vehicle, police said. The Ford was driven from the scene, while the Durango and Suzuki were towed.
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