FARMINGTON – A teen driver stepping on the gas instead of the brake sent a car lurching into the front of a downtown music store Wednesday.
“It was scary as hell,” said Chris Neal, a worker in the store. Neal was inspecting a guitar in the front window of Everyday Music on Broadway when the car crashed into the building, breaking a window and causing an estimated $8,000 to $10,000 of damage to the store.
Two ukuleles and a small electric guitar were damaged, two storefront windows were destroyed, and the brickwork on the front of the building was caved in where the car hit.
“She vaulted over the pavement and just smack – right into the front of the building,” said Neal, who avoided injury by jumping backwards away from shattering glass.
Nobody was injured in the accident that was caused when a teenaged driver from Rome stepped on the gas instead of the brake, Farmington Police Officer Mary Pratt said.
Damage to the 1993 maroon Ford Taurus was estimated at about $500, Pratt said. “She was having a rough start to the day, that’s for sure,” Pratt said of the young driver. “It could have happened to anyone, really.” The crash occurred just after 12 p.m.
Store owner Ernie Scholl said he was just glad no one was hurt. A customer had just left the store when the car hit.
“If she had left five seconds later, she’d be through the window. She’d probably be dead,” he said.
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