A Saturday morning shopping trip took a frightening turn at the New England Meat Market in Peabody, Massachusetts, when a car drove straight through the front of the store. The owner was in the back cutting meat when a thunderous bang sent him running to the front of the building, only to find a vehicle sitting halfway inside his shop. It is the kind of scene that stops you cold, and unfortunately, it is far more common across the country than most people realize.
According to the store owner, responding officials removed the elderly female driver from the vehicle and transported her to the hospital. Before ending up inside the market, the car reportedly struck another vehicle in the area. The owner noted that the driver appeared to be doing okay, which, all things considered, qualifies as the best possible outcome from a situation that could have gone much worse.
No injuries among store employees or bystanders were reported, but the damage to the market was plainly visible in photos from the scene. The car sat fully inside the store, surrounded by the kind of chaos that takes days to sort out and weeks to repair. For a small, independent butcher shop, that is no small thing…