General Motors Corp.’s treasurer said Wednesday that the automaker is planning to sell its Hummer truck brand and a factory in Strasbourg, France, and may announce more asset sales later this year.

Walter Borst said in a slide presentation at a Deutsche Bank investor conference that the company expects to distribute marketing materials for both operations in October.

Web site The Car Connection on Tuesday managed to get its digital hands on photos of the what is said to be the production version of the Chevy Volt, the much-ballyhooed plug-in hybrid from General Motors.
Production version of the Chevy Volt from General Motors

The photos were made available on GM’s media Web site unintentionally, a company representative told The Detroit News. They were quickly taken down from GM’s site after The Car Connection posted them.

A mid-afternoon crash Saturday in Darke County sent one driver to Wayne Hospital in Greenville.

It happened at the intersection of State Route 571 and Arcanum-Bears Mill Road, south of Greenville.

Deputies said that Zachary Halton, 19, of Cincinnati, driving a 2007 Hummer, failed to yield from a stop sign and drove through the intersection. The Hummer struck a car driven by Tony Gilbert of Palestine.