Detroit, MI
Car crashes through Detroit Metro Airport’s McNamara Terminal
DTW McNamara Terminal entrance damaged after car crashes through doors
Crews work to repair an entrance to Detroit Metro Airport’s McNamara Terminal after a car drove into the terminal on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026.
Officials are investigating after a car drove through the entrance to Detroit Metro Airport’s McNamara Terminal on Friday, Jan. 23.
The crash took place about 7:30 p.m. Friday and the vehicle hit a ticket counter, the Wayne County Airport Authority said in a statement.
The driver was taken into custody, officials said. Six people were also treated by the authority’s fire department.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known.
Whatever the cause, it made a terrifying noise, said Michele Wheaton, 54, of Pontiac.
Wheaton said she’d just flown back in from a trip to Puerto Rico with loved ones on Friday evening when the crash happened.
She was on her way to the arrivals area to be picked up when she heard a loud bang with sounds of metal and glass, she said.
“I stopped and looked around like, ‘Did anyone hear this?’” she said. “’Cause you heard the loud crash and then you just heard people screaming.”
Wheaton saw apparent security officers running, she said. One yelled, saying a car had crashed into the Delta area and asking if anyone had called 911.
Her luggage already in hand, Wheaton booked it out of the building and to her ride, she said. She told her mom to drive away.
Though specifics of the incident have not been released, Wheaton expressed sorrow at the events of the evening and dangerous incidents that take place in public gathering spots.
“It’s so sad that you can’t travel, that you can’t go to the movies or your churches or your grocery stores,” she said.
Video circulating online following the incident showed a man in an apparent Detroit Lions jersey being taken into custody.
The airport authority’s police department is investigating.
Workers could be seen still working to clean around broken entrance doors about 10:15 p.m. Friday evening.
A woman died, and a person is in custody, in the aftermath of a two-vehicle crash on Friday evening in Detroit.
An emergency call was placed at 7:39 p.m., reporting the crash at Collingwood and Belleterre streets. The Detroit Police Department said one of the drivers was traveling at a high rate of speed on Collingwood and disregarded a stop sign at the intersection, striking the other vehicle.
The crash killed a woman who is in her 40s and injured a man who is also in his 40s. A medical condition was not available for the injured man.
The Detroit Police Department said a suspect is in custody and they are continuing to investigate.
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