A late-night crash that sent a car straight into a Bixby Knolls coffee shop is drawing renewed attention to a deadly trend on Long Beach streets — traffic violence now claiming more lives than homicide.
Surveillance video captured the moment a Tesla veered off Atlantic Avenue and slammed into the front of Sala Coffee and Wine Monday night. The crash is still under investigation. The impact left the storefront damaged and forced the locally owned business to temporarily shut down. No one was injured and the owners say the outcome could have been catastrophic.
“It turned our world upside down in a matter of minutes,” said co-owner Derrick Montiel. “A car ran straight into the building.”…