Car Crashes Through Two Livermore Businesses

LIVERMORE, CA — A car crashed through two Livermore businesses Monday afternoon, police officials said. The driver drove through the businesses in the 4400 block of First Street at about at 1:20 p.m.

According to police, the 76-year-old male driver, who was attempting to park his car, likely had “pedal confusion” and hit the gas pedal instead of the brake, causing him to drive through the businesses.

"The car drove through the unoccupied business, then made a sharp right, causing him to drive through the waiting room area of Super Cuts," Officer Ryan Sanchez said. "Luckily, no one was in the waiting room at the time."

Sanchez said no one was injured.

"Fire units remained on scene to clean up the broken glass and remove the vehicle from the building," Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Battalion Chief Michael Miller told Patch.

In October of 2015, an 80-year-old woman mistook the gas pedal for the brake accelerated into a Livermore gym hitting an exercise classroom, fatally injuring Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory executive Kathy Baker and injuring five others. The same month, a 70-year-old driver was trapped inside her car after crashing into a vacant building in a San Ramon shopping center and another driver was injured after her car crashed into Primary Eyecare Optometrics in Castro Valley.

In November, a driver mistook the gas and brake pedals on a sedan and crashed into a Dublin Goodwill store. One month later, a 85-year-old woman plowed into her neighbor’s house on Lexington Way in Livermore.

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Photos courtesy Natalee Wolley