LUCERNE, Calif. – No one was injured Saturday morning when a parked SUV was hit outside of Lucerne's Lakeview Supermarket by another SUV, with the two vehicles ending up several feet from the store itself.
Initial reports from the California Highway Patrol said the crash happened just before 9:45 a.m. in front of the market, located at Highway 20 and Fourth Street.
A red Ford Explorer hit a white Ford Explorer that was parked in front of the store, ramming it through two of the decorative concrete bollards in front of the building and into the sidewalk, several feet away from the market.
The CHP indicated that an individual involved in the crash had been drinking, but further details were not immediately available.
Lakeview Supermarket owner Kenny Parlet said no damage was done to his store, thanks to the concrete bollards.
“They took out two of those and averted an absolute disaster,” he said.
The white SUV was parked in front of his store's front door when it was hit. He said the vehicle was pushed through the bollards, which broke off at the base. That SUV then came to rest on top of the broken bollards.
He said there was glass and debris everywhere but no one was hurt.
“It worked out very nicely for us,” he said, noting it's good to have the bollards for protection.
One of the bollards had been knocked down previously and was replaced either by the county or the state, Parlet said.
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