Man Crashes into Ottumwa Stadium Building

OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — Police say they plan to ticket a motorist who crashed into an Ottumwa stadium building.

The Ottumwa Courier reports that the driver went through a chain-link fence at Schafer Stadium in Ottumwa on Saturday and struck the facility’s newest building.

Ottumwa Police Sgt. Noah Aljets says the car was traveling between 35 and 40 mph just before the crash. Aljets says the building wasn’t seriously damaged.

Aljets says it isn’t clear why the driver kept going straight into the fence instead of turning into a nearby parking lot.

The driver, who wasn’t identified, was taken by ambulance to a local hospital.