Videos of terrible drivers are the backbone of the internet. Providing nobody is hurt or injured, these videos are always a wild ride, quite literally, but a video of a recent crash into a smoke shop in Fullerton, California might just take the cake for the most intense in the genre.
In it, footage from the smoke shop’s surveillance cameras shows the driver crashing through the front of the store and then just continuing to drive, all the way through to the back of the shop. You’d think that after crashing your entire vehicle through a window, your first instinct would be to stop, if not reverse entirely out of the store, but I guess you wouldn’t be in such a situation if quick thinking and fast reflexes were your key strengths.
According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, the incident took place at around 3 a.m., so only two people, the owner and a cashier, were in the store at the time, and thankfully, neither were hurt. In fact, in one of the videos you can see the cashier look on in horror as the car plows through the store, only slightly stepping back from the counter but otherwise seeming incredibly chill in the face of absolute insanity.
The store’s manager, Seja Karim, spoke to the L.A. Times about the incident and said, “In the video, you can see it seemed like she stopped and then she put her hands up and then the car just accelerated. I think she hit the gas instead of the brake and ran into the whole store.” Karim estimates that the incident cost about $100,000 from the damage done to the cigar room at the back of the store alone.
The 22-year-old driver of the car was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and taken in by the police before being issued a citation and later released. Meanwhile, the smoke shop, one of the few in the area that’s open 24/7, never closed its doors. Karim told the Times, “We just cleaned up the area and got right back to business.”
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