Car crashes into midtown market

No injuries reported

COEUR d’ALENE — Matt Bright could only shake his head in exasperation after a car crashed into the front window of Midtown Home & Vintage Market on Monday morning.

“It sucks. It’s been one thing after another,” he said as he surveyed the damage.

Bright and Megan Eatock own the Fourth Street business, which recently opened after being closed for about six weeks due to coronavirus restrictions.

“We finally open, and then this,” Eatock said as she helped clean up the aftermath inside the store.

There were no injuries.

A woman driving a green Subaru Legacy entered the parking lot at 1003 N. Fourth St. about 11:30 a.m. and reportedly clipped a parked SUV before crashing into the market’s rainbow-painted window.

Police interviewed the driver, handcuffed her and placed her in the backseat of a cruiser.

Manager Kim Tanner and a vendor had just walked to the other end of the store when the car struck the building.

“It sounded like a bomb going off,” she said.

Merchandise flew off displays and landed on the floor. Staff cleaned up the mess.

Tanner has worked at Midtown Home & Vintage Market about two and a half years, A car crashing through the front on a sunny Monday morning came as “quite a surprise.”’

“Not a great start to June,” she said.

Eatock was disappointed but thankful everyone was OK. Vendors and customers had been walking inside the store near the front not long before the car hit.

She and Bright opened the market at its location in August.

“I feel like it could have been worse. I’m just glad no one was hurt,” she said.