1 injured when car crashes into new Arlington Heights police station

A Georgia man was injured Sunday evening when a car left the road, flipped and crashed into the new Arlington Heights police station, authorities said.

A 2015 Volkswagen GTI was heading west on Sigwalt Street at a high speed about 5:28 p.m. when it lost control and left the roadway, according to Arlington Heights police. The car overturned and struck the front of the police facility at 200 E. Sigwalt St.

The driver, a 44-year-old man from Georgia, was extricated from the vehicle and taken to Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, officials said. He was in critical but stable condition Sunday night. Nobody else was in the vehicle.

No criminal charges had been filed as of Sunday night, police said. An investigation is ongoing.

The crash caused significant damage to the village's new $27.9 million police station, which was unoccupied and in the final stages of construction, authorities said. Police have been aiming to move into the downtown building this fall.

The two-level, 70,500-square-foot facility replaces the former 38,000-square-foot station that village officials said was outdated. The police department has been operating out of a temporary headquarters at 1500 W. Shure Drive.