BELLINGHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - Surveillance footage captured a wild scene in Bellingham Sunday as a red pickup truck went on a destructive drive near Chevy’s Ice Cream Parlor.
At around 7:30 p.m., the truck went crashing through the ice cream shop’s parking lot on Pulaski Boulevard. In the footage, the truck can be seen zooming by, hitting multiple signs at a high speed, and very narrowly missing collisions with multiple parked cars.
“I was home, getting [my daughter] ready for bed, a friend of mine called, she said, ‘You got to get down here. Somebody drove a car through — there’s all sorts of damage.’ I said, ‘Oh my gosh,’ and I pulled in and I couldn’t believe it,” said Shayna Murray, whose family owns the ice cream shop.
Another video shows the truck barreling through, nearly hitting a parked, occupied red van that had a child inside.
Police said the pickup truck’s 38-year-old driver was drunk and lived nearby. The driver was speeding and charged with reckless operation, as well. He was taken to the hospital and will be summonsed to court at a later date.
Murray said the situation could have been much worse. The parlor was scheduled to be open Sunday, but inclement weather and other business delays pushed back the season’s opening. Had the shop been open and the parking lot full of cars – and customers – the owner fears much more damage would have been done.
“All I could see was just the what ifs,” Murray said.
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