Gadsden man in Fair condition following Monday wreck

A Gadsden man remains in fair condition in a Birmingham hospital after being airlifted there Monday after the car in which he was a passenger drove into a building on Piedmont Cutoff in East Gadsden.  30 year old Robert Dumas, remains in fair condition. The driver, 20 year old Garrett Charlton Chase,  was not injured in the wreck.  According to Gadsden police, the 2007 Chevrolet was traveling west at about 70 mph on Piedmont Cutoff when the car began to veer off to the right. The driver said he pulled the steering wheel back toward the road, but ran off instead. He said once the vehicle hit the ditch, he blacked out. When he woke up, his car was in the building, which is used by the East Gadsden Church of the Nazarene for its youth ministry. The building is between Campbell and Sheffield avenues.  Witnesses verified the driver’s story saying he was going “extremely fast,” then ran off the road, into a ditch and eventually into the church building.

Police say no charges are expected in connection with the accident.