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Driver Plows Through Grocery Store Window

Photo: QueensPost

Sept. 8, 2012 Staff Report

A car was struck broadside and pushed into a Sunnyside grocery store on 43rd Ave. last night.

According to eyewitnesses, one of the vehicles was speeding along 42nd Street, went through a red light and hit the other vehicle traveling east on 43rd Avenue.  A 4-wheel drive then thumped into the side of the Sunnyside Market grocery, located at 42-08 43rd Ave.

The incident occurred a little after 7:50 pm.

The FDNY was called at 7:56 pm, according to a spokesman, and two people were transported to Mt Sinai Hospital in Astoria from the scene. Their condition was unknown.

A Sunnyside Market store worker said that nobody was too badly injured and there was no significant damage to the store.