Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
Truck plows into Fort Pak-A-Sak
By Shelley Grieshop
FORT RECOVERY - Heavy damage was sustained to the village's Pak-A-Sak store early Sunday morning after an alleged drunken driver drove a pickup truck through the front glass doors.
Matthew M. Brockman, 25, 301 Fox Road, Fort Recovery, reportedly also was involved in another accident prior to driving his 2007 Dodge Ram truck into the store front. He was cited for two counts each of operating a vehicle while impaired and failure to control and for leaving the scene of an accident.
An arraignment hearing is set for May 26 in Celina Municipal Court.
Police Chief Jared Laux said Brockman and the clerk working at the 24-hour business were not injured in the accident.
Police do not have official blood-alcohol content results for Brockman because the test was not taken "correctly," Laux said. The report lists the BAC test information as a "refusal."
Laux said witness accounts and investigative work indicated Brockman's truck - prior to arriving at Pak-A-Sak - struck a stop sign and drove through a yard near the intersection of North Elm and East Butler streets. Minutes later, at 1:28 a.m., he drove the truck through the front glass doors and part of the exterior wall on the north side of the Pak-A-Sak at 219 N. Wayne St.
A damage estimate was not available; the truck was towed from the scene.
Mercer County Sheriff's deputies assisted at the scene.
