‘Something out of the movies’: Car flies into Westlake Tommy’s, sending driver to hospital and damaging multiple parked vehicles

A dashing automotive misplaced management, went airborne and slammed right into a Unique Tommy’s in Westlake Friday night.

The crash occurred simply earlier than 6 p.m. on the restaurant at South Rampart and Beverly boulevards.

“Me and my brother have been having a fast chunk to eat earlier than the Dodger recreation and we heard the longest skid on the planet. The man should have been doing about 100 miles per hour,” mentioned witness Luis Hernandez.

The motive force of the Infiniti was taken to an area hospital after he sustained accidents in the course of the crash, which despatched items of the automotive flying.

“It actually exploded. Every thing exploded. Me and my brother began working for our lives as a result of it’s his entrance left tire, wheel got here off and bounced on that roof after which it bounced over the awning the place I used to be standing underneath,” Hernandez mentioned.

Nobody else was damage, however a number of parked vehicles have been broken by the influence, together with Lenin Guadamuz’s Subaru.

“I noticed the entire automotive go up into the air, hitting the nook of constructing. And I used to be like, I’m hoping my automotive is OK. That’s what I hoped. I didn’t see the pole. As soon as I walked to my automotive, I noticed the pole that was at the back of my automotive,” Guadamuz mentioned.

Emergency crews have been in a position to hoist the automotive out of the constructing.

“I used to be like, whoa. It appeared like one thing out of the flicks, like ‘Matrix’ or one thing. It was fairly cool. I imply, it sucks, but it surely was cool,” Guadamuz added.