The Seton House administrative building was damaged after a hit and run crash on Friday, June 11, 2022. (Courtesy)

CASPER, Wyo. — Seton House executive director Carrie Reece can’t help but imagine what could have happened had she been sitting in her office during normal business hours when a truck rammed into the administrative building.

The impact into the east corner of the building sent a rack made of glass and metal with computer printers and other equipment across the room. Cinderblocks fell and crushed a metal kennel where Reece sometimes keeps her dog, and part of her desk was crushed.

“The cinderblocks that flew through the air and the amount of shattered glass, if I had been in the office I would not be alive,” she said.

The crash happened sometime after 8 p.m. Friday at Seton House’s administrative building on H Street in North Casper. Seton House is a nonprofit that helps single-parent families with housing security. A security camera on a Seton House property across the street recorded the incident.

“On video, the sound is a tremendous impact,” she said. “You see the guy cut the corner and then you just hear this ‘Boom!'”

Reece says the truck captured on video is a large red work truck that is familiar in the neighborhood.

In an email to Oil City News, a Casper Police spokesperson said, “No arrests were made at the time of the reported incident. An investigation was completed and criminal charges have been recommended to the Natrona County District Attorney’s Office.”

Reece said she still doesn’t know how much damage was done from a financial standpoint, and is working with Seton House’s insurance company.

The impact heavily damaged the corner of the building, which, according to a contractor, is made from cinderblock and covered in EIFS, a common synthetic stucco material, as well as metal siding.

“What the contractor and the structural engineer told me is that they will not replace it with cinderblock,” she said. More of the building will have to be demolished and framed back in with different materials. “It’s going to be a slow process,” she said. Fortunately, there was no apparent damage to HVAC, water, gas or other critical systems.

“That’s a relief because it means we can just close that office and it’ll be business as usual,” she said. She has temporarily set up her office in a different area.

“I’m feeling a lot less terrorized than I was on Friday night,” she said.

Additional reporting by Greg Hirst, Oil City News.

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