- Two people have died and six are injured in a crash between a car and an outdoor table at a DC-area restaurant.
Two people were reported to have died and six others were injured when a car crashed into the outdoor seating of a Northwest Washington restaurant on Friday. WTOP.
According to the report John A. Donnelly, Washington, DC’s fire chief, stated that a driver lost his control of his car near Parthenon restaurant and swerved into its outdoor seating area. The accident has been declared a mass-casualty event by the authorities.
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“There are no indications that this was intentional,”Duncan Bedlion, Second District Commander of Police, said: According to the Associated Press. “We have a cooperative driver. He’s staying with us.”
DC Metropolitan Police reported that two victims died from their injuries and eight others were taken by ambulance to local hospitals.
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