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Mar 11, 2008 4:38 pm US/Central
Elderly Man Backs Car Into Fort Worth Restaurant
FORT WORTH (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
Patrons at the Railhead Smokehouse in Fort Worth on Tuesday afternoon were met with a surprise when an elderly driver backed his Lincoln Town Car into the side of the building.
Officials on the scene afterwards said that the 82-year-old had just finished up at the restaurant's drive-thru window. As he was leaving the restaurant, it appears as though he did not get his car fully into gear, which sent the car screeching backwards.
The driver narrowly missed all of the cars in the parking lot, instead slamming into the side of the building, in the front near the doorway.
Several people were in the popular restaurant, located on Montgomery Street, at the time of the crash. Two men were sitting at a table directly on the other side of the wall where the vehicle hit. "I saw him coming in reverse and I took off running that way, across the restaurant," said Cory Franks. "I didn't know what was going on, just trying to get away from it."
"It felt like a bomb went off," said Chip Wyche. "I was trying to see if I was alive. I thought I was dead. I didn't know whether I was dead or not, for real."
Nobody was seriously injured in the accident, but the driver was taken to the hospital and Wyche had hurt his shoulder. Firefighters said that the driver was alert and speaking after the crash.
The car has since been towed from the side of the building, and the large hole is being repaired. Railhead Smokehouse has remained opened throughout the entire ordeal.
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