A suspected drunken driver was arrested Sunday morning after crashing a pickup truck through the front of Atlanta’s iconic Fox Theatre.
The truck crashed into a front window on Peachtree Street and became wedged inside the building, Atlanta police said in a news release. A witness following behind the pickup told police it drifted toward the sidewalk and took out three street poles before hitting the theater.
The driver, Anthony Deon Kelly of Lawrenceville, failed a field sobriety test when officers were called to the scene about 2:15 a.m., police said. Kelly was cited on charges of DUI, reckless driving and striking a fixed object and was taken to the detention center at Grady Memorial Hospital to be checked out for injuries.
His Dodge pickup truck was towed from the scene.
The building’s front windows remained boarded up Monday. It was unknown if the lobby area was also damaged.
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