Car crashes into D.C. restaurant’s outdoor patio, leaving 2 women dead

WASHINGTON — An SUV crashed Friday afternoon into the outside seating space of a preferred Greek restaurant in northwest Washington, D.C., killing two girls and injuring a minimum of six others, three of them critically.

Authorities stated the incident seemed to be an accident.

“There are not any indications that this was intentional,” stated Second District Police Commander Duncan Bedlion. “We’ve a cooperative driver. He is staying with us.”

He described the motive force as an aged male who misplaced management of the automobile.

“That facet of dropping management is below energetic investigation by our main crash investigations staff,” Bedlion stated.

The accident occurred at lunchtime on a heat, sunny day within the nation’s capital. The restaurant, the Parthenon, is on a busy business strip with outlets and eating places, a lot of which have outside seating. Hearth vehicles lined the road, which was closed off to site visitors and pedestrians.

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Seven patrons of the restaurant and one worker have been transported to space hospitals, stated Hearth and EMS Chief John Donnelly. Police stated later that two individuals had died, each grownup girls.

“We do not know why it occurred,” Donnelly stated.

As a part of the investigation, authorities are in search of video proof from individuals who might have recorded the accident and are asking those that can present extra info to contact them.

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Requested if costs could be filed towards the motive force, Bedlion stated that may be a part of the investigation.

Authorities stated they’d activated the mass casualty response staff to guarantee that they’d the assets available to deal with the big variety of sufferers.