JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A car left Beach Boulevard, crossed the sidewalk and landed in Tom’s Urban Press on Friday afternoon.
No one was injured in the crash on Beach at Walton Street just before 1 p.m., although the store’s manager said the driver was shaken up. The print shop is across from Mudville Grill, where Atlantic and Beach Boulevard split in St. Nicholas.
“We were really luckily,” Ian Monterroso said. “Ten or 15 minutes before that, we were taking care of some customers and we were right there.”
The driver told him that a car ran the red light at that intersection and hit her on the passenger side, sending her vehicle off the road and into the storefront. She said the other driver kept going, not even checking to see if she was hurt.
Monterroso said he hadn’t worked there very long, but the man operating the press told him the same thing has happened at the store twice before.
A Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office community service officer was helping coordinate as the car was towed away.