A sizable brick sign that once read “City of Alpharetta Department of Public Safety” has been destroyed after a driver crashed into it Tuesday.
The driver was transported to North Fulton Hospital with minor injuries and is expected to be OK, police say.
The sign and the car, not so much. The former lay crumbled in many pieces; the latter was towed from the site.
The car had gone airborne before the collision, the city said.
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An irrigation valve was also destroyed, causing water to spray onto the scene.
The sign — about 8 by 12 feet — may have been nearly two decades old, as the “facility came on line around 2000,” according to a spokesman.
“We do not yet have a cost for replacement, but I can tell you that the motorist would typically be liable for the cost,” he said in an email.
A crash investigation is underway. No further details about the driver were immediately available.
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