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Friday, March 20, 2015

Car crashes into Rite Aid at Westwood Shopping Center, store closed for repairs (Photos)

A BMW sedan crashed through the side wall of the Rite Aid drugstore at Westwood Shopping Center after 4:00 PM yesterday, damaging merchandise and shutting down the store. There were no injuries reported, but the driver and cause have not been identified.

The car entered the store from the parking spaces along that side of the building. That parking has been there for nearly 60 years, yet this is the first time this has happened by my recollection.

The Westbard Avenue store has been temporarily condemned by Montgomery County building inspector Daniel Dyer. Store management is directing customers to their Potomac and New Mexico Avenue NW locations until repairs to the side wall can be completed. That work, and a massive cleanup, were underway last evening when these photos were taken.


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11 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:34 AM

    Let me guess: elderly driver? Confused brake pedal and gas pedal?

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  2. Anonymous7:02 AM

    Asian driver?

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  3. Anonymous7:28 AM

    Dyer?

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  4. Anonymous7:47 AM

    RITE AID HAS TAKEN OUT ONE OF OUR SOLDIER CARS IN THIS WAR ON CARS...LETS PRAY FOR THIS CAR AND STRIKE BACK AT RITE AID

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  5. Anonymous7:52 AM

    A pedestrian or cyclist could not have inflicted such damage on that building.

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  6. Anonymous8:03 AM

    @7:52 neither would an autonomous car or even just one with collision control :)

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  7. Anonymous8:08 AM

    With all those empty, useless, poorly designed, ugly, surface parking spots at Westbard you'd think they would find some other place to park.

    Maybe they need to add more parking spots?

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  8. Anonymous8:11 AM

    8:08 AM those rite aid spaces look like they're closest to the door. why park further away?

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  9. Anonymous8:42 AM

    A fan of Drug Fair, still bitter about the chain's demise, three decades later?

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  10. Anonymous9:12 AM

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  11. Anonymous7:05 PM

    We don't need a "War On Cars". The drivers themselves seem to be doing a good job of that, lately.

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