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Bridgette Matter<\/p>\nPublished:\u00a0April 5, 2026 at 5:19 PM<\/p>\n
Vehicle badly damaged after slamming into Oakland Park business <\/p>\n
OAKLAND PARK, Fla. \u2014 A vehicle slammed into a Broward County business early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
It happened just before 7 a.m. at Oriental Rug Care located at 3027 NW 12 Terr. in Oakland Park. <\/p>\n
Video obtained by Local 10 News shows smoke coming from the vehicle after the collision. <\/p>\n
In the video, someone gets out of the passenger side of the vehicle before pulling out what appears to be the driver. <\/p>\n
Another video from inside the business\u2019 break room shows a refrigerator bust open and fly across the room. <\/p>\n
Business owner Hassan Ashwas said he received a call from police early Sunday morning, and they were stunned by what they saw in the surveillance footage. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe looked at our video camera from the house and it showed an accident and cops,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
The business cleans and repairs rugs for customers and wholesalers. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe wash it here, we put it outside to dry on the sun and we hang it,\u201d said Ashwas. <\/p>\n
The area of the business where the rug cleaning happens wasn\u2019t affected, but their garage door and front door were heavily damaged. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a little bit of structural damage,\u201d said Ashwas. \u201cOur front entrance is right here. It\u2019s destroyed. The window here. And our garage door is bent. We can\u2019t even open it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ashwas worked throughout the afternoon to secure the building and board up the front, but he says they remain open for business. <\/p>\n
A police investigation into the cause of the crash remains open. <\/p>\n
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Bridgette Matter<\/p>\n
Bridgette Matter joined the Local 10 News team as a reporter in July 2021. Before moving to South Florida, she began her career in South Bend, Indiana and spent six years in Jacksonville as a reporter and weekend anchor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 5, 2026 at 5:19 PM Vehicle badly damaged after slamming into Oakland Park business OAKLAND PARK, Fla.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-253310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}