An SUV crashed into a Newtown restaurant yesterday afternoon. The accident happened around 2:30pm at King’s Breakfast & Lunch on South Main Street.
The vehicle came through the wall of the wood-frame building. Botsford Fire Rescue and the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps responded to the scene. Emergency repairs were made to a door, window and section of the wall. Newtown's fire marshal, building inspector and food inspector are investigating.
Newtown Police say a southbound vehicle, operated by 79-year old Theodore Shear of Bridgewater, tried to turn left into the driveway in front of the SUV. The other driver, 59-year old Douglas Gabel of Monroe, turned abruptly to avoid hitting the Acura, continued through the parking lot and entered the exterior wall with its front bumper.
The bumper struck a person sitting in a chair with her back to the wall. No injures were reported.
Shear was cited for failure to grant the right of way at a driveway.