Tuesday, Dec 25 2012 06:57 PM
Driver crashes into apartment
By BREAKING NEWS BLOG
At about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Bakersfield Police Department officers responded to an apartment complex in the 3600 block of Micheli Court for the report of a collision.
Responding officers found that the driver of a vehicle overshot a parking space and collided with an apartment in the complex. The driver, who has not yet been identified, remained at the scene and was found not to be impaired.
No one was injured. Initial reports of a gas leak were unfounded.
-- Bakersfield Police Department
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