Father Charged After Daughter, 13, Allegedly Crashes His Car Into Office Building: 'It Looked Like an Explosion' By Madison E. Goldberg

A father of a teenage girl is now facing criminal charges after she police say she drove his car into a building while he was sitting in the passenger seat.

Joey Kristopher Jansen was arrested on suspicion of endangerment and criminal damage after his 13-year-old daughter, who has not been publicly identified, allegedly drove his car into a law office in Mesa, Ariz., local outlets Fox 10 and ABC 15 report.

Police confirmed to the outlets that neither Jansen nor his daughter were injured in the crash.

“It looked like an explosion. The car, it was a sedan, just kind of came right through and collided,” Alison Briggs, a partner in My Arizona Lawyers, the firm whose office was hit, told Fox 10. “You can see the tire tracks right here. The car came through and then went right through those panels, which is part of our lobby and then our main conference room.”

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“I practice a lot of family law. My first thought was: I hope Mom has a good lawyer because that parent is incredibly irresponsible, and it made me just incredibly sad for the child,” Briggs added. “Thank God our receptionist wasn’t in there. Thank God there was no one in there meeting with clients.”

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PEOPLE has reached out to the Mesa Police Department and My Arizona Lawyers for comment.