Car And Truck Plow Into Front Of Telegraph Road Office Building
SOUTHFIELD (WWJ) - Police will be looking at surveillance tape as they work to determine how and why two vehicles plowed into a building in Southfield on Wednesday.
A pickup truck and car crashed into the front of the Elite Fire Safety building on Telegraph at Garner in Southfield, leaving cinder blocks crumbled and strewn about.
Three were no serious injuries.
"I heard, kind of heard a screeching and I thought maybe...you know, somebody slammed on their brakes or something back at the light," said Rob Hensley, owner of the building and president of the company.
"Then I looked out my window and those guys didn't stop a tall," he said. "I mean, they must have hit the building going about 45 (miles per hour)."
Employee Mallory Brookman had just returned to work when the crash happened.
"...I saw a bunch of people running towards our building and smoke going off and I put it together that there were two vehicles in the front of our office," she said.
Brookman said it was amazing that no one was badly hurt.
One of the drivers, a pregnant woman, was taken to a local hospital as a precaution but was believed to be OK.
Hensley said it could've been much worse.
"We thought that one of the guys, who sits in a cubicle right there where that white truck is, was still here — but he'd just gone to lunch like ten minutes before," Hensley said. "So we were trying to dig him out of the rubble and yelling for him; but luckily we got confirmation that he wasn't at his desk."
An investigation is ongoing.
