At approximately 3 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, a silver Dodge sedan with Pennsylvania plates went barreling down Seventh Avenue near Third Street and hit the scaffolding on the building on the north-east corner of 2nd Street.
It then continued underneath the scaffolding past two trees in front of Met Foods before going back onto the street and veering back onto the sidewalk where it flattened a parking meter and ended up in front of Maggie Moo’s with a tree in its fender.
The driver, apparently, was asleep at the wheel. He is resting at Methodist Hospital according to the owners of Met Foods. Miraculously no one was hurt, including the man who sits on a milk crate in front of the store collecting money.
Met Food’s awning was destroyed as were all the fruits on display outside.
Info for this article: Diaper Diva was walking by and saw the aftermath of the accident. She iPhoned Hepcat, who went over and took pictures. We both spoke with the owners of Met Foods. We pieced it all together looking at Hepcat’s photos.
It was our car that it smacked into but we werent in it
could he not have just crashed into your car? sorry though. just don’t understand the value of mentioning the make.
Thanks for the info. Louise
he wasn’t asleep-he was speeding and tried to turn wrong direction on 2nd street, and tried to correct his mistake and veered out of contol up the sidewalk. unfortunately it was our parked car that he smacked into-talk about bad timing!the best thing that can be said is that we weren’t in our car at the time and no one was injured.
Not to mention he crashed into the back of our parked Saab station wagon!
My gosh…didn’t here about his either! How scary to think someone asleep behind the wheel could cause so much destruction! And that man sitting on the crate outside the Met? I’m surprised he got off his butt and moved! A friend and I were trying to get our strollers into the Met today and he offered help only after we were already inside!;)