Car crashes into Starbucks on Bakerview Rd., injures five
Fisted by stinkfinger under Uncategorized on Tue, May 6, 2008
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This is where Index and I meet for coffee, all the time. In fact the nose of the car in the pictures is just about dead on where were sitting, last time we were there.
Grabbing the whole lot off of KOMO–
5 injured when car crashes through Bellingham Starbucks
BELLINGHAM, Wash. – Five people were injured Tuesday morning when a car crashed through the front of a Starbucks store.
Bellingham police say the 70-year-old man was pulling into the store parking lot at 1031 W. Bakerview Road around 9:30. Next thing he new, his Chrysler 300M sedan crashed through the front window of the building and drove all the way to the rear wall, partially caving it in.
Five customers, four women and a man, were injured. One of the women was pinned against the wall. All five have been taken to a local hospital, but their conditions are not known.
There’s no word on the condition of the driver. Police have not identified him, only to say he was visiting from Arlington, Texas.
Police say the driver told them he doesn’t know what happened to cause him to crash through the store.


May 6th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Hey Zeus!
And if we were sitting in our usual arrangement, looks like I would have seen an automobile pass inches behind you.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I’ll take “inches behind” over “pinned against the wall with internal injuries” any day.
Just heard on the news that none of the injuries are life-threatening. That’s good.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I know JUST the Starbucks that is. Maybe you should consider going to The Woods Coffee right down the street. Better coffee, locally owned, fewer cars driving through the windows.
Police say the driver told them he doesn’t know what happened to cause him to crash through the store.
I know what happened. A 70 year old man was driving. People over the age of 65 should have to take a driver’s test every 2 years.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I know what happened. A 70 year old man was driving. People over the age of 65 should have to take a driver’s test every 2 years.
Agree.
May 6th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Index and I like the Woods Coffee down at Boulevard Park – and fanatics keep throwing bricks through the windows of that one.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
85 year old crashed into Starbucks in Cali earlier… no charges on that one. Perhaps there’s something in the coffee that makes old men think the break pedal is the gas pedal?
CRAZY!
May 6th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
I prefer Woods atmosphere, but their drop coffee I’d pretty gross.
1. Wish I could have seen that old man exit the car immediately after the crash.
2. Can’t wait until I’m old enough to escape charges on shit like this.
3. Or go up to youngsters and tell them that I’m them from the future.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
If that old bastard got glass in my Pike’s Place blend, I’d be so pissed. Oh, and if he killed me or pinned me against the wall with his car, I’d also be pissed.
-Fat
May 8th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
You Starbucks drinking losers must not have any tastebuds left. Boo, folks, boo.
July 16th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Man, I just read that almost the exact same accident happened elsewhere in WA last week. Crazy!
July 16th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Link removed. Fake Fatfinger.