Crime & Safety

Car Plows into Downtown Pet Supply Store, No Injuries

A car drove into the Pet Pros store on Main Street in downtown, the Bellevue Fire Department reported. No injuries reported.

A downtown store where a woman drove her car into the front window reopened about an hour after the crash.

Around 9 a.m., an 87-year-old woman whose foot was in a brace was stepping on the brake when the store at 10505 Main Street opened Thursday morning, when her foot slipped off the brake and the car lurched forward into the store window, said Bellevue Police spokeswoman Officer Carla Iafrate. 

The woman and a store clerk inside were not injured.

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Pet Pros owner Dan Albrecht said that the clerk was opening the store, and had turned around to get the door for the customer, when the customer and her car came through the window. 

"That's the first thing you ask, is everybody OK, is the lady OK, are the employees OK," Albrecht said. 

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No live animals are sold in the store, though cat trees and dog beds that were near the front display window will have to be discarded, said Albrecht.

Albrecht said that the store would open up as soon as the broken glass was cleared.

"Customers need their food. Dogs need to eat. So do the cats," he said.


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