Car crashes into Mansfield bakery

By Jordan Mazza

Email: jmazza@abc6.com

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MANSFIELD, Mass. (WLNE) – Police are investigating after a car crashed through the doors of a Mansfield bakery Thursday afternoon.

Mansfield Police and Fire Departments responded to White’s Bakery on School Street around 1:30 p.m. Thursday for reports of a car having crashed into a building.

“When I saw the car in my store, I just couldn’t believe this was happening to us,” said Tracy Carifa, the bakery’s manager.

Police said the single-car accident resulted in a vehicle driving completely into the bakery through the front doors.

“Saw the car come straight through the front door, and just kept coming until she hit the back wall,” Carifa said.

A customer had stepped through that door just moments earlier, and had to jump out of the way to avoid getting hit.

“That’s crazy,” said Teresa Bravo of Providence. “That’s like, movie stuff.”

But it’s a movie Mansfield has seen before. Just last year, a car drove through Elements Massage in the very same shopping center.

“I don’t know what it is about this plaza that people seem to be driving into the storefronts,” said Mary Kate Lessard of Mansfield. “Makes me concerned to come back, though.”

“I think the most dangerous place to be in Mansfield is by the door of a store,” said Andy Cram of Mansfield.

But miraculously, no one at the bakery was injured.

Carifa tells ABC6 .the female driver was shaken up but not taken to the hospital, and that a friend came and picked her up from the store.

The incident is under investigation, and no cause has been determined at this time.

Carifa says the bakery plans to reopen Saturday.

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