No one hurt when teen driver crashes into Arlington Heights garage

No one was injured Saturday when a teenage girl learning to drive crashed a car into an Arlington Heights garage, officials say.

Police ticketed the 15-year-old Arlington Heights girl for driving without a license or permit and her mother for allowing an unlicensed driver to operate the vehicle.

The crash occurred about 3 p.m. when the teen girl was driving south on Dunton Avenue, Arlington Heights Fire Department Batallion Chief Bill Essling said.

Arlington Heights police could not comment on the extent of damage to the garage but Essling said the vehicle was not badly damaged.

The Chicago Tribune reported the driver was trying to avoid colliding with an oncoming pickup truck being driven by a pregnant woman, before driving into the backyard of a home on the 700 block of North Dunton Avenue.

The teenager overshot a right turn onto Hawthorne Avenue and likely mistook the gas pedal for the brakes, sending her through the home's fence and its rose bushes before crashing into the garage, Essling said.

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