Car slams into auto restore store in Mayfair, driver arrested
A wild morning in Philadelphia’s Mayfair neighborhood while an automobile raced thru an automobile parking space and slammed into a vehicle repair shop.
The alleged inebriated driver was arrested instantly. The business is partly destroyed and could take time to reopen.
It befell about four a.M. on Saturday. The silver BMW plowed into Mike and Irv’s Auto Repair Shop at Harbison Avenue and Levick Street in Mayfair. The crash startled neighbor Alby Snyder out of deep sleep.
“All I see is an automobile going right thru the garage. It was crazy. All these motors, and I don’t realize how he did that without hitting different vehicles,” Snyder exclaimed. “I don’t realize how rapid they had been going. However, they had been going speedy because it was a noisy – actual loud bang.”
Police allege the driver, estimated to be in his forties, became under the influence of alcohol. The vehicle rammed through a storage bay so difficult, it pushed a patron’s conventional car through the back wall, causing extreme structural damage. Amazingly, both the driving force and a passenger walked away without severe accidents.
“Good guy. Takes care of my dad’s automobile and my brother’s vehicle,” said Snyder.
The fifteenth Police District is just in the back of the 60-yr-antique car shop. In fact, the back wall juts up towards the police automobile parking space.
The current owner says Mike and Irv were his father and uncle. He told Fox 29 he became too distraught to talk on a digital camera. The City of Philadelphia Licenses and Inspections has deemed the construction as structurally unsound, and the business must close for the foreseeable destiny.
“It’s a disgrace now; he’s out of work, can’t work because L&I close him down till he gets the trouble fixed because a person desires to drink and force,” Snyder added.
After they noticed the destroyed save, the first component the owners did was to frantically search for their puppy cat who lives inside the building. Happily, the cat survived. She changed into terrified and hiding but home secure now. The owner is now focused on figuring out wherein to ship his current customers simultaneously as the alternatives up the pieces.
