A sport utility vehicle drove through the glass window of a Circle K convenience store in Kennebunk this morning.
The accident happened shortly after 11 a.m. at the Irving gas station on Portland Road. The store is closed until an engineer determines its structural safety.
No injuries were reported and no arrests made.
The black Lexus surged from a parking area through a large glass window beside the door, pulling framing from the window.
“Basically, she went right through and hit the display cases,” said Lt. Jay Byron of the Kennebunk Fire Department. “It’s a fairly narrow store and the car was fully inside.”
Byron said the vehicle remained driveable, and was backed out of the store and taken away on a flat-bed truck. The female driver – there were no passengers – was driven home by police.
Trevor Foss, a cashier at Irving/Circle K, said two other employees were on duty, but that luckily, no customers were inside at the time of the accident.
“I saw the car buck,” he said. “She went to step on the brake but obviously she hit the gas and smashed right through the front windows and all the way through the store to the back of the coolers.”
Fossed estimated the driver’s age at 40 to 45. He said she was shaken up and apologetic.
“There’s glass everywhere and all the shelves are pushed aside,” he said. As for the Lexus, he said “it had no damage except a little bit to the bumper.”
Foss said it may be a week before the store reopens.
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