Customer Injured As Vehicle Crashes Into Store: Police

GLEN BURNIE, MD — A driver took a wrong turn Sunday morning and plowed his car into the lobby of a department store, injuring a customer, according to the Anne Arundel County Police Department.

The unidentified customer suffered a "minor laceration" when he or she was hit by a piece of debris, the police said Tuesday in a weekly report. The driver, David Mark Shofer, 51, of Glen Burnie, received a ticket for failing to control speed to avoid a collision.

Police officers responded at 10:54 a.m. Sunday to the scene of the accident, the Roses Discount Store at 7387 Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd., in the Cromwell Field Shopping Center. They determined that Shofer "had been negotiating a turn in front of the store when he accidentally pressed the accelerator instead of the brake," the police report said.

This action caused Shofer's vehicle to strike the brick and glass front wall of the store, and the entire car smashed into the lobby, the police said.

On Tuesday, a manager at the Roses store referred an inquiry about the accident to the parent company's headquarters in North Carolina. Company executives at that office, who were contacted by phone and email, did not respond to requests for comment.