No injuries after SUV crashes into Maui restaurant ADVERTISING No injuries after SUV crashes into Maui restaurant WAILUKU, Maui (AP) — No one was hurt when an SUV crashed into a restaurant on Maui, according to authorities. A 67-year-old woman
No injuries after SUV crashes into Maui restaurant
WAILUKU, Maui (AP) — No one was hurt when an SUV crashed into a restaurant on Maui, according to authorities.
A 67-year-old woman was trying to park her vehicle Sunday morning at the Paia Fish Market when she accidentally hit the gas and plowed into the restaurant, police said. Her SUV broke through a window and part of the wall, said police spokesman Lt. Gregg Okamoto.
Police didn’t observe any signs of impairment from the driver, according to Okamoto.
The car went halfway into the restaurant, creating clouds of dust and causing ketchup and hot sauce bottles to shatter, said General Manager Anatol Eisele. Eisele said he was cooking in the kitchen when he heard the crash in the dining room.
Restaurant employees made sure the 40 to 50 customers were OK and checked on the driver, who also was not hurt, Eisele said.
Eisele said the restaurant closed for the rest of the day Sunday but would be open Monday and during the repairs.
“People are really funny. They were like, ‘Can you still cook our meals?’” Eisele said. “We cooked two more meals, and then we had to stop.”
Discovery of explosives leads to evacuation
HONOLULU (AP) — Hundreds of Honolulu residents were evacuated for hours Sunday after a family found a cache of old grenades and pipe bombs in a deceased relative’s closet, police said.
Officers were sent to a report of someone wanting to turn in his brother’s firearm and ammunition at about noon, police said. When they arrived at the address, they were shown the grenades and pipe bombs and began clearing the six-story condo building.
Police also evacuated a building across the street and told other nearby residents to stay inside.
The evacuation order was lifted at about 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
Police asked city buses to take displaced residents to a gym where the Red Cross set up a temporary shelter with water and cots for seniors. A Red Cross representative said 27 people showed up at the shelter.
Maureen Otsuka and her husband went to the shelter after hours of waiting outside in the afternoon heat. Otsuka said she and her husband use walkers and called the experience “a little unsettling, but what a way to meet the neighbors.”
One of the building’s residents, a young mother, didn’t learn about the evacuation until hours after it was ordered.
Jocelyn Amoguis said someone banged on her door but she was distracted by cooking and her 2-year-old son. She only learned of the evacuation when her husband called from his work at about 3 p.m., and she rushed outside with a small bottle of water and her son in her arms.
