A St. Paul woman has been cited for ramming her SUV into the Cherry Pit bar and grill last week, leaving a hole in the wall.

Rhonda Blake, 47, of St. Paul, was issued citations for leaving the scene of an accident, failure to drive with due care and failure to report the accident.

St. Paul police officers were called just after 2 a.m. Friday to the bar on the corner of White Bear and Minnehaha avenues on St. Paul’s East Side.

Officers found a Chrysler Aspen on the west side of the building in the parking lot with major front end damage and a hole in the wall of the bar.

The impact sent a large chunk of cement flying through the interior, narrowly missing a Cherry Pit employee.

“My security guy had just gotten done putting the stools up at the table when she went through,” said Nicole Cherry, owner of the bar. “He was very lucky.”

Cherry posted a video from her surveillance camera of the incident on Facebook. The bar closes at 1 a.m. and the employees begin locking up at 2 a.m., she said.

The video shows an SUV going backward into a retaining wall and then lurching forward, just missing another car exiting the parking lot before slamming into the building.

Cherry was not at the bar at the time of the incident, but was called by her employees and arrived about a half hour later.

Witnesses told the officers that the driver had left the scene in another vehicle. Police determined her identity, called her and had her return to the scene.

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Cherry and her father boarded up the hole, cleaned up the mess and were able to open for business on Saturday.