Unlicensed Driver Cited After Crashing Into Restaurant
HANOVER PARK, Ill. (STMW) -- An unlicensed driver apparently failed to brake and smashed into a northwest suburban pizza restaurant Wednesday afternoon.
Yury Carias, 25, of the 500 block of Glendale Lane in Hoffman Estates was driving in t e parking lot of Adamo's Pizza at 2021 Irving Park Rd. in Hanover Park when she failed to brake. The car went over the wheel stop and sidewalk before striking the front plate glass window of the restaurant, a release from Hanover Park police said.
It happened about 1:20 p.m. and when police arrived, officers found a 2003 Dodge Stratus partially inside the restaurant, where it had come to rest against a table, the release said.
Two customers were inside at the time but neither was hit by the vehicle or injured due to the accident, the release said.
Carias was also uninjured and was taken into custody. She was issued a citation for no valid driver's license and released after posting $150 bail.
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