By Leslie Eikleberry

SALINA — A Kansas woman was critically injured Friday morning after a violent crash into a home in Salina.

Just before 2.a.m., a Toyota driven by Kaitlin Varga, 25, Salina, was eastbound on West South Street at a high rate of speed when the vehicle left the roadway, striking the brick and concrete porch and porch pillar and then the house at 822 West South Street, according toSergeant Brent Rupert.

The vehicle rolled on its side and stopped east of the porch.

The impact was such that bricks from the pillar and porch flew through the air and damaged the house next door to the east, including one brick that flew through the bedroom window of the house next door. The woman sleeping in the bedroom at the time was not injured, Rupert said. Additionally, brick debris flew over the house next door, landing on the property two houses east of the accident.

Emergency personnel had to secure the vehicle before they could extract Varga from it. She was taken to Salina Regional Health Center with critical injuries. She later was transferred to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Rupert said. She was not wearing a seatbelt, he said.

Rupert said that later in the morning a City of Salina building inspector checked the house that was struck and determined it was not inhabitable. Several people live in the house, he added. The damaged part of the house was temporarily shored up to prevent further damage.

The investigation into the incident is ongoing, according to Rupert.