UPDATE| Driver Charged With DUI After Septic Truck Crashes Into Centre Elementary School

Just before 6:30 Saturday evening emergency crews received a 911 call reporting a vehicle had ran through the building at Centre Elementary school on E. Main St. Both the vehicle and the building suffered significant damage only minor injuries were reported to the driver. 

61 Phillip Lee Witt of Leesburg  was booked into jail at 7:19, charged with DUI, in connection to the incident.

 Those responding included Centre Fire and Centre Police Department, Cherokee County EMS and Rescue Squad, and Cherokee County Emergency Management Agency. A hazmat cleanup crew was called to the scene and the Alabama Department of environmental management was notified.

We will have additional information as soon as it is available.

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