Truck crashes through wall of Anchorage sushi restaurant

ANCHORAGE — A south Anchorage sushi restaurant was forced to close temporarily after a driver crashed his truck through a wall.

Anchorage television station KTUU reported the truck late Monday night struck Ronnie Sushi on Jewel Lake Road.

Images from the scene show the cab of the full-size truck nearly completely inside the restaurant.

A crew Tuesday afternoon was continuing to clean up damage.

Police spokeswoman Jennifer Castro says the 50-year-old driver was using the truck to spin “doughnuts” in the parking lot before the crash.

Restaurant owner Ronnie Lee did not have a damage estimate.

He says handmade decorations on the wall were broken into pieces and some can’t be replaced.

Online court documents did not list charges filed against the driver Wednesday.

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