An SUV crashed through the wall of the Woodinville Café on Northeast Woodinville-Duvall Road on Sunday morning, Father’s Day, after the driver reportedly pressed the gas instead of the brake. Two people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries, while Eastside Fire & Rescue evaluated five others at the scene.
The café was packed for Father’s Day when the vehicle’s front end ended up inside the building. Customers narrowly avoided serious injury during the incident. The Woodinville Café is now temporarily shut down and boarded up, awaiting inspection by a structural engineer.
Will Brausieck, a customer at the Woodinville Café, was seated in a booth just inches from the impact. “We were literally right next to it… hit the booth right behind my brother… it nudged my brother’s chair so it was a foot away from hitting our booth,” Brausieck said. He noted that his eldest brother immediately ran to the car to check on the driver and tell them to turn the engine off…