Updated: Sun Oct. 12 2008 12:00:54

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A careening car left a trail of destruction in Surrey last night, running over a fire hydrant, knocking over lampposts, and finally slamming into a Taco Time restaurant.

The black SUV crushed a newspaper box between the grill and the restaurant wall, leaving a "bowling ball-sized hole" in the building, said Taco Time owner Harj Sihota.

"I was shocked when I saw it," said Sihota.

"He did damage to two blocks, he kept plowing down fire hydrants, poles," he said. "His final stop was Taco Time."

Just before 3 a.m. Sunday, the vehicle was heading north along Scott Road at high speed, police said.

The car lost control, and left pieces of fire hydrants and poles scattered about the road as it hit them.

Finally the car knocked down a tree - a collision that sent it into the side of the Taco Time, police said.

The driver was pulled from the vehicle unharmed, and no one else was injured, police said.

Sihota said he doesn't know how much it's going to cost to fix the hole in the wall, as well as the lampposts on his property that were damaged.

"We're still waiting to see," said Sihota.