No injuries reported in bizarre Wellesley garage crash

By Alli Knothe, Globe Correspondent

A woman who arrived at her office in Wellesley early this morning decided to park her 2011 Cadillac in the small two-story parking garage. This was the first time she had parked at ground level, and she probably never will again -- after a man drove his Honda onto the roof of her car, totaling the vehicle.

A 51-year-old man who was trying to park perpendicular to the parking garage at 93 Worcester St., next to Route 9 and Route 128, told police he panicked, though he didn’t say why, and slammed the accelerator instead of the brake, hitting a curb, and projecting his vehicle through an opening in the side of the parking garage and onto the hood, windshield, and roof of the Cadillac.

He received a $20 ticket for failure to use caution and stop, said Wellesley police Sergeant Scott Whittemore. He said it would have probably been a more expensive ticket had the garage been a public facility.

He said it took three tow trucks almost an hour to extract the cars from the garage. The Honda had to be extracted the same way it went in, through the opening on the side of the parking garage.

“If there was a mistake, it would have fallen another 20 feet to the bottom floor of the garage,” said Whittemore.

Both cars were removed from the odd position they were stuck in. No one was hurt, and the owner of the Cadillac, who is an employee of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, was notified.

Whittemore said he did not know whether the man’s insurance would cover the damage caused by the incident. No damage was done to the concrete building.