SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — A suspected drunk driver is in jail after allegedly smashing into a Sandy Springs medical office and driving away. The building is on Allen Road.
Channel 2's Steve Gehlbach was the only reporter at the scene Thursday morning.
"This literally looks like a tornado came and hit our building only," Dr. Armin Oskouei said.
Oskouei said he was freaking out when he got the call around 3 a.m.
"Pipes busted from the ceiling, water everywhere, thinks the sprinkler system's gone off, there's a fire," he said.
At first, the extent of the damage was unclear after the truck smashed into Ortho Sport & Spine Center after coming off the 285 ramp, across Roswell Road.
The vehicle went through the grass, taking out a row of bushes and a total of four fences.
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"This was the fence that was out closer to the highway that's been pushed all the way back. You can see parts of the vehicle," Oskouei said.
When police arrived, the driver and the truck were gone.
The man driving the truck somehow got free from the rubble, and a second set of tracks in the grass shows where he backed out, lost one of four rear wheels off the pickup truck and got back on the ramp to 285.
Officers found him a few hundred yards down the road.
The driver was charged with DUI, and the doctor said he is thankful the man was caught and that the truck didn't go a few more feet. It just missed taking out their surgery center on the other side of the wall.
"This is where we do all of our major surgeries, very high-end, super technical where we have a lot of expensive equipment," Oskouei said.
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