3 injured as car plows into restaurant

3 injured as car plows into restaurant

The dining room of the Fairmount Italian Restaurant in west Port Angeles was still in disarray Saturday morning after a car crashed through the front wall. (Photo courtesy of Peninsula Daily News)

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Story Published: Jul 12, 2008 at 2:42 PM PDT

Story Updated: Nov 20, 2008 at 11:04 PM PDT

By Peninsula Daily News

PORT ANGELES - Police say three people seated at a booth were injured when a 77-year-old woman backed her car through a restaurant wall.

Nineteen-year-old Elisabeth Nicole Hagerman was taken to the Olympic Medical Center at Port Angeles with a broken arm and internal bleeding, according to her mother.

Her mother, 42-year-old Huberta Meadows, was treated and discharged from the center after Friday's accident. Juana Argyropoulos, 50, also was treated and discharged.

Maria Sands was not injured when her Lincoln Town Car plunged half its length through the brick, wood and glass wall of the Fairmount Italian Restaurant. Sands has not been cited. A passenger in the car, Gordon Cole, was not injured.

Cpl. Kevin Miller says Sands says she left the restaurant, got into her car, backed away from the west side of the building and swung around in a circle. Miller says Sands had no idea why she was not able to stop her car.

"From where she was parked to where she hit the restaurant, it was over 200 feet and there is no evidence, and witnesses say, that the brakes were never activated," Miller said.

Information for this story was provided by KOMO News media partner Peninsula Daily News. To read the complete Daily News story, click here.

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