The driver is not being criminally charged for the crash.
Minor injuries have been reported after a car accidentally drove into a store in Tempe, US, on Thursday. Nail-biting footage of the incident, uploaded by the Tempe Police Department, shows two men chatting on the high street when suddenly a white sedan plows through the storefront, hitting the victims before crashing through the shopping aisles. The video ends with the car stopping and then backing up to the store entrance.
Watch the gruesome surveillance clip below:
Wow check out this close call!! The driver accidentally left the car and tried to put it into park and inadvertently depressed the accelerator pedal. Fortunately only minor injuries! pic.twitter.com/03OWUN9o6c
— Tempe Police (@TempePolice) May 26, 2022
According to 12News, the two men were pushed about 25 feet into the store by the car. Both were taken to hospital with minor injuries. Tempe police say the accident happened after the driver accidentally stepped on the accelerator pedal instead of the brake pedal.
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“It just went so fast,” described an anonymous salesperson who was hit by the car. “The wall came to us,” he added. Separately, in conversation with ABC15the sales associate also said that “it felt like an earthquake.”
The seller said he is recovering from cuts to his head, arms and legs, and also has five stitches in his hand. The employee is still in hospital, but is expected to be doing well. The driver, on the other hand, will not face criminal charges for the crash, but they were arrested on an unrelated warrant.
The seller is just thankful for once that everyone survived.
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Speak with 12NewsBok Park, the store owner, said he expects the store to be closed for repairs for about a week. He said he hopes to open the store sooner, but the crash caused a knock-on effect that damaged some of the inventory and knocked out thousands of items.
