3 Hurt After Vehicle Crashes Into Kmart, Some Thought It Was An Explosion
ARVADA, Colo. (CBS4) - Three people were injured after a minivan crashed into a Kmart in Arvada Tuesday afternoon.
The crash occurred just after 2 p.m. at the Kmart located on West 58th Avenue near Independence Street.
Three people were taken to the hospital with injuries not considered to be life-threatening.
The minivan crashed into the west side of the building at a high rate of speed and went through the wall 50 feet into the store. The 41-year-old male driver and lone occupant of the minivan and two female Kmart employees inside the store were injured.
"One of the female employees that was struck is in serious condition; I don't know the extent of those injuries," Jill McGranahan with the Arvada Police Department said.
Lenny DeWitt was next door when the crash happened. He said he thought a bomb had gone off.
"What I heard was like an explosion because I was over at King Soopers. There was just this huge sound, explosion," DeWitt said. "When I came over here employees were running out the door and they didn't know what happened at the time … they thought it was an explosion, terrorist bombing."
The cause of the crash is under investigation.