A wall that was damaged earlier this year by a driver started receiving repairs Monday, Oct. 21.
It will be finished by the end of this year, and while it’s under construction, the sidewalk and turn lane on northbound Sligo Street will be closed.
The damaged wall is a brick retainer on the west side of Shiloh Steak House. It was what finally stopped Cody Mallett’s white Nissan Altima on May 9, after he hit four cars and nearly hit two people.
Mallett was driving “westbound in the 2000 block of East Main Street when he collided with … a black Chevy Silverado,” according to the Cortez police report.
After that collision, Mallett lost control of the vehicle, “and went off the south side of East Main Street in the 1900 block,” the report said.
His vehicle “went airborne through the LivWell Marijuana Dispensary … and jumped the driveway of the dispensary,” the report said.
Mallet’s Nissan Altima continued through the parking lot and crossed into the Shiloh Steak House lot, where he hit a sign, went “airborne again after hitting an access ramp to the building” and almost hit two people, the report said.
Though Mallett dodged the pedestrians, he hit their “unoccupied black Nissan Rouge” and two other cars in the lot. The retaining wall is what stopped him.
Mallett told officers that “the last thing he remembered was driving on the road, then he came to, and he was in a wreck and had collided with the wall,” the report said.
In the report, Cortez Police officer Kadan Sharp said Mallett’s eyes were “bloodshot and glassy” and he had “white foamy saliva around his mouth.” Officers found open marijuana and alcohol containers and a bong in Mallett’s car.
At the Cortez Police Department, Mallett was served with Montezuma County Uniform Summons for DUID, reckless driving, open alcohol container, and open marijuana container inside a motor vehicle, the report said.
Mallett failed to appear in court and has a warrant out for his arrest.
