Truck slams into Downtown Fresno coffee shop after running red light

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Downtown Fresno java store is dealing with a shattered storefront, aft a clang adjacent Fulton and Stanislaus thoroughfare Thursday night.

Amy Clay, pb barista astatine Cornerstone Coffee, witnessed it firsthand.

"We conscionable heard the skid marks. So erstwhile we looked up, we seen the motortruck deed the broadside of the java shop, and past it went into the tree," Clay said.

Video of the country moments aft the clang shows Fresno Police hauling distant 2 mangled vehicles, arsenic employees ticker successful disbelief.

Police accidental the operator of the achromatic motortruck ran the reddish airy earlier hitting a reddish dodge challenger and past careening into the java shop.

The clang resulted successful lone insignificant injuries, but subordinate pastor astatine Cornerstone Church, Nathan Franklin, is grateful determination weren't much victims.

"The workers wrong this java shop. It closes astatine five. They usually locomotion location astatine 5:30 similar connected the dot, that mishap happened astatine 5:30 it could person been worse," Franklin said.

The thoroughfare is typically crawling with people, bookended by the church, and Warnor's Theater, Franklin says this benignant of incidental is thing new.

"We've seen astatine this country an mishap astir apt each fewer months, from 1 that galore of them that person deed this gathering to thankfully not deed immoderate pedestrians, but person travel existent close," helium said.

Despite the damage, it was concern arsenic accustomed astatine Cornerstone Friday.

The non-profit is tally by radical from Lighthouse Women's Recovery Home, Clay told america she was acceptable to get backmost to her regular routine.

"I adjacent was acceptable to, like, timepiece retired and support working, due to the fact that I was like, I emotion this java shop. This is, like, my 2nd home," she said.

Franklin says the metropolis has done large enactment to bring radical Downtown, but hopes they'll transportation that effort into improving infrastructure, saying, "It's not ever radical that marque you consciousness harmless with municipality postulation moves, and truthful having places wherever pedestrians tin walk, determination to and fro from downtown, that's what we're acrophobic about."