QUINCY, MASS. (WHDH) - An SUV slammed into a Wendy’s restaurant in Quincy Monday afternoon, tearing down a fence and damaging the side of the brick building, according to officials.
The driver told 7NEWS he was doing a food delivery from Popeyes next door around 4 p.m. when he backed up out of his parking spot and went to drive away. He said that’s when the car accelerated out of control, driving through a fence and hitting the restaurant on Southern Artery.
A translator for the driver told 7NEWS the driver is grateful to be okay.
“Even though it’s him, he doesn’t know what happened. He just start the car and the car just run,” the driver explained through a translator.
Quincy police said no one was injured.
The manager of the Wendy’s location saw the crash happen. He said the SUV’s impact caused damage to some fry stations behind the wall.
“I just looked out my window from here and then I see the car come straight to the wall,” explained Simson Exule, the restaurant’s manager. “The fry stations are in there, the oil is all messed up on the floor.”
The SUV drove into the wall right next to the restaurant’s drive-through window. Exule also told 7NEWS it’s normally very busy at that time of day, and he’s grateful no one was waiting in line at the time.
Building inspectors came to the restaurant to check the safety of the structure since there is significant damage to the building.
Quincy police are investigating.
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