By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – A car drove through the front of a restaurant in Chehalis yesterday evening injuring a customer inside.
“There was a guy that was eating dinner on the other side of the wall,” Chehalis Fire Department Firefighter Kevin Reynolds said. “So the car bumped him and he went to the hospital.”
Responders called about 5 p.m. to the South Pacific Bistro on Southwest 13th Street found a car-shaped hole in the front of the building, Reynolds said.
It’s nose pushed the one table over, he said.
It appeared that the driver thought his vehicle was in reverse, but it was in drive when he hit the gas, according to Reynolds.
The cafe is owned by the same couple whose home just up the street has been struck twice by other vehicles, Reynolds said.
Three years ago, a wayward Twin Transit bus plowed through their fence and yard before striking a corner of their split level home.
A year later, a pickup truck drove through the fence into the driveway, where it shoved a parked vehicle several feet through the closed garage doors at the other end of the house.
Reynolds said the victim from yesterday’s incident suffered a knee injury.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Wow bad karma is following them.
Wow! Three times this couple has had vehicles run onto their property and hit something? That’s worth a segment of a Ripley’s strip.
Hope it all works out. My wife and I have eaten at the South Pacific a few times and the food has always been quite decent. Just wish there was an Italian restaurant nearby, though…nothing since Gemelli’s closed (and their fare was excellent). I’d settle for an Olive Garden.