{"id":193984,"date":"2026-03-16T20:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193984\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T20:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:55:07","slug":"driver-loses-control-of-car-crashes-into-local-restaurant-injuring-at-least-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193984\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver loses control of car, crashes into local restaurant, injuring at least 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) \u2014 The Tallahassee Police Department is investigating after a car slammed into The LunchBox on North Magnolia Drive in Southeast Tallahassee. <\/p>\n<p>The driver tells ABC 27 he lost control of his vehicle while it was raining, crashing into the restaurant. <br \/>Employees say there were at least 8 people inside the building.<\/p>\n<p>The Tallahassee Police Department says they got the call around 1:47 p.m. on Monday.<br \/>According to TPD, at least one person was injured inside the building.<\/p>\n<p>They suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The driver says his wife and niece were in the vehicle at the time of the crash and were taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The Lunchbox has been a popular staple for the past 20 years. <br \/>Employees say this is the second time a car has hit the building.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) \u2014 The Tallahassee Police Department is investigating after a car slammed into The LunchBox on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,90148,28,90149,82065,7365,232,234,233,90150,562],"class_list":["post-193984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-car-crashtallahassee-police-department","tag-florida","tag-jennys-lunchbox","tag-rainy-weather","tag-southeast-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-the-lunchbox","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}