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LAYTON -- The owner of a comic shop has hard work ahead of her and an interesting story to tell after a car crashed into the store Tuesday morning.
The car backed through the front windows of the shop and ended up about 20 feet inside HeeBeeGeeBeez Comix and Games at 1986 N. Hill Field Road in Layton.
Luckily, nobody was hurt.
Around 8:30 a.m., the 76-year-old male driver of a 1986 Ford Mustang left the neighboring Alphagraphics store. He got in his car, put it in reverse, began driving backward in a semi-circle and never stopped backing up.
"I heard the squeal of tire marks or tires," said Jon Weimer, the employee at Alphagraphics who had helped the customer just moments before. "I thought it was somebody just showing off for a second. Then it lasted."
Then Weimer heard what he described as a very loud crash.
The driver back into the front windows of the store, taking out what owner Rachel Williams calls the "toy section."
"It looked like a tight fit, and his car had filled up with toys off of the walls," she said. "That was kind of funny, but for the most part it just looked like a bunch of destruction."
Workers have been picking up shards of glass all morning. The store front was destroyed by the impact, and store works estimate the damage will cost upwards of $20,000.
The good news, of course, is that the store was not open and nobody was working at the time.
The driver was not injured and was able to walk away from the crash.
The driver told the shop workers his car just wouldn't come out of reverse.
Police have concluded their investigation. Layton Police Lt. Garrett Atkin says no charges are going to be filed.
Email: aadams@ksl.com
(Photo: Rachael Williams)
