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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - An SUV crashed done the beforehand model of Uncle Harry’s New York Bagelry & Coffeehouse connected Cedar and Shaw avenues Friday.
Five radical were treated for insignificant injuries.
“About 11 a.m. this morning, [we] got reports that a conveyance had driven wrong the edifice here,” Fresno Fire Department spokesperson Josh Sellers said.
About 25 customers were inside, enjoying their bagels erstwhile the metallic Lexus crashed done the window.
“My ma was like, ‘Oh my God!’ And I was like, ‘What happened?’” Seven-year-old Solomon said, recounting the events.
Solomon’s knees were inactive shaking portion speaking with Yourcentralvalley.com. He witnessed the clang from the parking batch with his family.
“How would this happen? All I wanted was conscionable a pizza bagel,” Solomon said.
His household was waiting for their pickup orders erstwhile they heard the solid shatter.
Their minds raced, preparing for the worst-case scenario.
“I heard the solid shatter, truthful I thought determination was a tsunami coming consecutive for us,” Solomon said.
His mom, Elizabeth Castaneda, instantly thought to support her family.
“It's scary due to the fact that with everything going connected close now, like, you know, similar the happening that happened successful Bourbon Street successful Louisiana… we're each benignant of connected edge. So for these things to happen, it's like, it does origin you to panic a small bit,” Castaneda said.
To her relief, officials accidental the clang was not intentional.
“It sounds similar the operator conscionable accidentally stepped connected the incorrect pedal. They stepped connected the accelerator alternatively of the brake,” Seller said.
Medics treated 5 radical for insignificant injuries. Officials accidental it could person been overmuch worse.
“With implicit 25 radical successful the edifice and a conveyance driving into it, it's astonishing that determination was nary 1 killed,” Sellers said.
Uncle Harry’s precocious completed a large renovation to modernize the space. Now, they volition commencement implicit from the beginning.
“I anticipation they repair their business,” Solomon said.
It volition instrumentality a portion for the doors to reopen, but erstwhile they do, Solomon’s household volition beryllium archetypal successful enactment for pizza bagels.
“I’m looking guardant to my savory bagel,” Castaneda said.
