Two people are hospitalized after a 22-year-old man drove a red Mustang into the wall of an apartment building on Rosemary Street at 2:30 a.m., Chapel Hill police said.
Police have charged Kedarius Keray Noel, who is not a student, with driving while impaired, speeding to elude police, failure to reduce speed and reckless driving to endanger the passenger in the car, Lt. Kevin Gunter said.
Noel suffered a broken leg and his passenger, whose name was not released, sustained severe facial injuries, Gunter said.
There is a large hole in the wall of the apartment building on Rosemary Street just across from Breadman's and west of Key Food Mart, Gunter said.
"Bricks were knocked off into the street," he said.
Police said they saw Noel driving a red Mustang around the corner from Henderson Street onto Rosemary Street heading west, accelerating as he turned, Gunter said.
"Tires were squealing. He was going a high rate of speed," Gunter said.
Annie Kleve, a resident of apartment four, said she was standing in her kitchen when she felt the car hit the building. She heard a scream and pulled open her blinds to see the car still vibrating from the crash, she said. She said the car hit one end of the building where the laundry room is, making a hole in the room, and flipped several times before landing at the other end of the building near some shrubs. As it was flipping, the car also made a 6-foot hole in the living room of apartment one, which is next to the laundry room, she said.
She pointed to what she and the other residents believe is the splattered car oil and car tire marks on the front of the building.
