The Jeep came to rest on the building at 210 S. Breiel Blvd. and on top of the Alero.
The Oldsmobile also hit a Saab and a third vehicle in the parking lot, police said.
Middletown police Lt. Walter Scott Reeve said no one was injured in the office building.
Paige was transported as a precaution to Atrium Medical Center, where he was treated and released.
Police have not determined how fast Paige was driving, but witnesses estimated he was going about 70 mph when he was skidding through the parking lot.
“He had to have been going faster than that before the crash,” Reeve said.
The Alero hit the Jeep with such force it smashed a stone wall and left a hole in Dr. Carlos Ongkiko’s office.
Ongkiko, who was in his office dictating at the time of the crash, said he had to duck as a piece of wood went flying through the air.
The Jeep belongs to office employee Kathy Kraft, who said — ironically — she and her husband, John, had already made plans to go shopping for a new vehicle after work that day.
Dr. Douglas J. Brockman, who owns the building, said Ongkiko, a neurosurgeon, was lucky to have escaped the accident unscathed.
“He’s darn lucky,” Brockman said. “It’s a good thing there’s stone on the lower part of the wall. That stone slowed him down and the Jeep parked in front of it helped, too.”
The medical building, which police said sustained between $70,000 and $100,000 in damage, will remain open for business.
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