This Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014 photo provided by Leonard Rhone shows a car that plowed through a storefront in Dublin, Calif. Police say seven people were injured when a car crashed into the restaurant in a Northern California shopping center. A 56-year-old female driver had just pulled into a parking lot outside Taqueria Los Pericos in Dublin on Thursday night when she accidentally accelerated and plowed through the storefront. (AP Photo/Leonard Rhone) (The Associated Press)
DUBLIN, Calif. – Police say seven people were injured when a car crashed into a restaurant in a Northern California shopping center.
Lt. Nate Schmidt tells the Contra Costa Times (http://bit.ly/1wiuHSV) that the 56-year-old female driver had just pulled into the parking lot outside Taqueria Los Pericos in Dublin on Thursday night when she accidentally accelerated and plowed through the storefront.
Schmidt says six customers and the driver were taken to hospitals. Two of the customers had serious injuries, but no further details were provided.
He says preliminary investigation shows driver error is to blame and alcohol was not a factor.
Schmidt says it's fortunate that there weren't more traumatic injuries.
Dublin is in the San Francisco Bay Area 25 miles east of Oakland.
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Information from: Contra Costa Times, http://www.contracostatimes.com
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