CHESAPEAKE
A woman drove through a plate glass window of the U.S. Post Office on the 1400 block of N. Battlefield Blvd. Thursday afternoon, accelerating into the inner lobby and injuring three people, said a spokeswoman with the U.S. Postal Service.
The incident happened around 1 p.m., said Fran Sansone of the U.S. Postal Service. Sansone said a female post office customer in her late 50s hit the gas instead of the brake.
The post office’s inner lobby will be closed Thursday afternoon, but officials hope to have it open by 8:30 a.m. Friday morning, Sansone said.
The outer lobby was opened Thursday afternoon. It has a stamp vending machine and other services.
The driver and three customers were taken to the hospital, Sansone said. She did not know about their conditions.
She said the post office workers are “a little bit shook up, but ready to get back to work.”
Delicious
Digg
Reddit
Facebook
Google
Yahoo
Orion and Carrien
I am very well aquainted with both the North and South Battlefield post offices and was not confused. I trust everyone is okay but nevertheless, it is unusual for someone in that crowded parking lot to push the pedal so hard to run over the sidewalk and into the post office. I work for a health care company and it is astounding the number of people on medicaid. If these folks didn't have health insurance since they had to go to the ER, the we ALL pay for their treatment. I didn't mean to offend you, Orion and Carrien.
Orion and Anne
Orion, I totally agree with you. That is a crummy place. Dumpy all the way. Parking stinks.
Anne, you must be confused about which post office got hit. It isn't the only one on Battlefield. NOBODY would say it was nice with ample anything.
Lousy drivers
I wonder if that accident interupted her phone call?
New take on 'going postal'?
At first I thought it was a case of a person being ticked off at the post office for some reason. My best guess would be the woman got distracted and hit the gas by mistake. Again a case of people needing to stay focused on what they are doing - like driving her car! No mention of the driver being ill in any way, so that doesn't fit it.
chsgrl
It it very rare for a person to have a siezure or stroke causing them to wreck. It is Very, VERY common for someone talking or texting on a cell phone to wreck.
Not correct. . .
". . .if she's like most people and has only state minimums then maybe YOU will be paying some of it. . "
She would be sued in Civil Court, lose, and have to pay by any means necessary. This is why smart people are doing $100K on property, for instance if you hit my 2006 BMW M3, and it as a result hit say a BMW X5 (you see a good number of them) assume they are totaled, you got to pay out at close to $100K.
Anne -
If the lady who hit the PO has her own car insurance, then hopefully THEY pay. Not sure where you feel YOU are coming into it. Of course, if she's like most people and has only state minimums then maybe YOU will be paying some of it.
Cement barriers?
I thought most businesses have cement posts in front of buildings for things like this... I am surprised that the PO doesn't have them. And if you're not paying attention it's easy enough to hit the wrong pedal... but really for something that can be as crowded as a PO, you would think they'd have the barriers for safety. Then she would have just hurt herself.
Jumping to conclusions . . .
Did you all ever think that a woman in her late 50's could have some type of seizure, stroke or heart attack?? Lets not jump to conclusions and attack someone before we know the whole story.
Crazy
That post office has ample parking and a good wide sidewalk. I've been there a million times since it was built many years ago. The woman was probably talking on the cell phone, or someone, and paying absolutely NO ATTENTION what she was doing. She could have killed somebody! I think there should be a ticket and some big fine for doing that. No excuse other than not paying attention most likely. Run into the post office? Who ever hear of such a thing. Thank God no one was killed, yet they had to go to the hospital. Who knows if they had health insurance? Then who pays for the ER visit? ME.