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Apr. 16th, 2013 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreToday, a car crashed into the side of the Kingston Community Center (which is the building which holds the Kingston library).
As far as I know, an elderly lady was parking her car to visit the senior center and hit the gas instead of the brake. She plowed through a window and straight into the senior center. I thought it was a car accident, at first - there's a lot of ferry traffic near the library and people aren't always as careful as they might be coming around the curve. My coworker, thinking of yesterday, was worried that it might have been a bomb.
Nobody was hurt. The driver and her passenger got stuck in the car and had to wait there until the fire department came, but they seemed fine. They did get taken to the hospital, but just to get checked out. Even though there's a big couch right below the window they came through in the senior center, no one was sitting on it. The seniors had all gotten up and started towards the table where lunch was being served. One lady ended up with some glass in her hair and that was all.
The library is a floor about the senior center so it wasn't damaged, and it wasn't open so there was no one there but me and one coworker. And we're fine. The fire department has closed the building until they can get a structural engineer in to assess the damage, but they seem pretty confident that the building will be all right (albeit with a large hole in it now). We have declared the library closed until further notice (hopefully not for more than a day or two) and I have come home.
Essentially, this is the best possible scenario for a car crashing into the side of a building. I am feeling really lucky right now.
As far as I know, an elderly lady was parking her car to visit the senior center and hit the gas instead of the brake. She plowed through a window and straight into the senior center. I thought it was a car accident, at first - there's a lot of ferry traffic near the library and people aren't always as careful as they might be coming around the curve. My coworker, thinking of yesterday, was worried that it might have been a bomb.
Nobody was hurt. The driver and her passenger got stuck in the car and had to wait there until the fire department came, but they seemed fine. They did get taken to the hospital, but just to get checked out. Even though there's a big couch right below the window they came through in the senior center, no one was sitting on it. The seniors had all gotten up and started towards the table where lunch was being served. One lady ended up with some glass in her hair and that was all.
The library is a floor about the senior center so it wasn't damaged, and it wasn't open so there was no one there but me and one coworker. And we're fine. The fire department has closed the building until they can get a structural engineer in to assess the damage, but they seem pretty confident that the building will be all right (albeit with a large hole in it now). We have declared the library closed until further notice (hopefully not for more than a day or two) and I have come home.
Essentially, this is the best possible scenario for a car crashing into the side of a building. I am feeling really lucky right now.
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Date: 2013-04-17 04:06 am (UTC)no subject
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