A woman was taken to the hospital and a building is in need of repair after a two-car accident in downtown Westbrook Monday afternoon.
The collision occurred near the intersection of Church and Main streets, near the TD Banknorth building at around 1 p.m.
According to police, James Lapointe, 48, of Spring Street, was exiting a parking lot adjacent to the bank in his Mercury Cougar when he collided with a Volkswagen Golf driven by Jacqueline Lyons, 18, of Kittery Point, traveling west on Main Street.
Lapointe’s car struck Lyons’ vehicle on the front passenger side. After the collision, Lyons lost control of her vehicle and slammed into a building at 840 Main St., the main office of Current Publishing, the parent company of the American Journal and seven other weekly newspapers.
The accident damaged one of the offices inside the building. A large crack ran in the wall of the office from the floor to the ceiling. No one was injured inside the building.
Police said Lyons was taken by ambulance to a Portland hospital for observation. Lyons was not wearing her seatbelt at the time of the accident, police said.
A two-car accident on Main Street in Westbrook this afternoon sent one vehicle careening into a wall 840 Main Street. 
Air bags deployed in the Jetta during an accident in Westbrook Monday afternoon. The car keys of a Volkswagen Golf can still be seen inside the vehicle. 
The two drivers involved in a Dec. 11 accident that sent one vehicle into the side of the offices of the American Journal speak on their cell phones after the accident. Jacqueline Lyons, 18, of Kittery Point, left, was driving the vehicle that struck the building after being hit by a vehicle driven by James Lapointe, 48, of Westbrook, right.
The interior wall of an office at Current Publishing’s Westbrook location shows the damage caused by Monday afternoon’s two-car accident.
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