The woman walked away unhurt
Stevenage woman flees police after crashing into Quaker house wall
Richard Young
Friday, June 8, 2012
12:41 PM
AN 18-YEAR-OLD woman was arrested this morning after crashing a car into a religious building.
Alfie Henebery submitted this photo of the crash via www.iwitness24.co.ukThe woman from Stevenage was detained on suspicion of taking a car without consent, failing to stop and other driving offences after she walked unhurt from a black Vauxhall Corsa which had smashed through a brick wall of the Friends Meeting House on Cuttys Lane in Stevenage shortly before 6am.
She had tried to run from officers who were called to the scene.
A fire crew was sent to the Quaker one-storey building, and firefighters called for a structural engineer to assess the damage.
There were no casualties.
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