Car crashes into card store in Castle Shannon

CASTLE SHANNON, Pa. — A car crashed into a Hallmark shop in a Castle Shannon shopping center on Thursday.

No one was hurt in the crash in the 300 block of Mt. Lebanon Boulevard that happened around 4:48 p.m., although the driver of the car was transported to the hospital, according to police.

“We heard sirens coming up the road. I came outside and there was a car inside Hallmark,” said Courtney Muzzey, who works nearby. “The car went basically right up to the counter in Hallmark and there was a girl standing there.”

If it wasn’t for a pillar, the car probably would have gone through the whole store.

“You could just see the car had gone straight through the storefront of the building,” said Kandace Mandarino, who arrived just after the crash.

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What went wrong isn’t exactly clear, but fire officials think the driver might have forgotten to put her car into park and placed her foot on the gas instead of the brake.

"Fortunately, we're blessed that no one was hurt, because with the impact of the car coming through, it would have been devastating," said owner John Lind, who says the crash was so powerful it knocked plates off the wall in the restaurant next door.

Amazingly no one was hurt, but this scene is all too familiar for Mandarino.

“I just left a personal injury law firm maybe two weeks ago. We had one of the cases from the Brentwood accident when the car drove through the storefront there and all the crazy injuries,” she said.

Some of the people who work in this area are hoping something is done to keep this from happening again.

“I feel like we learned our lesson and we definitely need some barriers up in here,” Muzzey said.

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