HURRICANE, W.Va. (WSAZ) --- A drunk driver took a turn off the road, and straight into a church, Saturday afternoon.

According to Hurricane Police, Charles Bibbee was driving drunk and crashed his car into Saint Timothy's Episcopal Church on Teays Valley Road.

Bibbee is 27-years-old and from Hurricane; police say his blood alcohol level was .169.

The church has been boarded up, the hole is about the size of a one-car garage door.

The Reverend Cheryl Winter says her congregation "had a great Sunday of being grateful," Winter says, "it could have been so much worse for the church and the young man who had the accident."

People had been at the church about an hour before the accident happened no one at the church was injured, and neither was Bibbee.

The Reverend Winter says that Bibbee hit the most forgiving part of the church, and for that he's lucky. Hitting a steel beam, or even a telephone pole could have meant a much different outcome in the accident.

A contractor came in to patch things up so church could go on as usual Sunday morning.