Olive Branch Café back to serving customers three days after car crashes into dining room

ALGIERS, La. (WGNO) — It was Wednesday afternoon when a car crashed through the front of the Olive Branch Café in Algiers. The dining room was full of customers and employees at the time, yet miraculously no one was seriously injured.

“If you watch the video, as I have many, many times, you will see that there were about four or five people that were inches away from serious injury or death,” Russell Autry, the Olive Branch Café owner, said. “I definitely feel like it was a miracle at Olive Branch that no one was seriously injured.”

Still, the building sustained significant damage…

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