LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) – An SUV crashed through a wall of a grocery store, momentarily pinning the manager against the counter. He escaped serious injury.
Video from a security camera at Constanza Meat Market shows Andy Minaya, 26, standing at a counter when the wall behind him explodes inward, showering him with merchandise and obscuring him briefly in a cloud of dust.
Minaya then leaps the counter and scampers out.
of harm’s way. “I just wanted to get out of there,” he said.
He went to the hospital where he was treated and released.
“I have bruises on my leg and back and my arms and a couple of little cuts,” he said.
The driver of the sport utility vehicle, Roselia Santos, 40, reported feeling dizzy just before Friday’s accident, according to the police report. She was not charged.
She is a regular customer at the store, Minaya said.
The store reopened later in the day.
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