All photos by Kriston Capps. (Apologies for their quality.)

At around 8:30 p.m. Monday evening, a UPS driver suffered a seizure and swerved along Independence Avenue SW, driving through a light pole and a flower pot barrier before crashing the truck into the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden building.

The driver was injured in the accident. D.C. Fire & Emergency Medical Services initially assessed his injuries as a priority two trauma, which means serious but not life threatening. At around 10 p.m., however, D.C. 6th Battalion Fire Chief Mike Conway described the driver’s injuries as bruises, cuts, and scrapes. According to Conway, the driver—who was described as “alert and oriented”—left his wrecked truck by his own power and boarded an ambulance, which took him to a local trauma center.

No art was lost in the accident—though that was not the first concern for people on hand. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden director Richard Koshalek arrived at the scene just before 10 p.m. and was briefed by Conway and Fire Batallion Chief Wayne Benson. Koshalek asked immediately after the welfare of the driver and whether any other cars or passerby were struck. (None were.)

“That’s good news,” said Koshalek. “We can fix the museum.”