{"id":56832,"date":"2025-12-01T06:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/56832\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T06:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:24:19","slug":"90-year-old-driver-destroys-coffee-shop-in-full-speed-caught-on-video-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/56832\/","title":{"rendered":"90-year-old driver destroys coffee shop in full-speed, caught-on-video crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 90-year-old driver may have been drunk when he slammed his car into a California coffee shop on Thanksgiving night, police said \u2014 with the shocking crash captured on surveillance video.<\/p>\n<p>The clip shows the car racing down University Avenue in the San Jose suburb of Los Gatos around 9 p.m. on Thursday, then ramming at full speed into Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company, demolishing the popular local shop and sending the unnamed driver to the hospital, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/coffee-shop-crash-90-year-old-plows-los-gatos-roasting-company-thanksgiving-night-police-suspect-alcohol\/18224141\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WABC-TV News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust devastated with the destruction, but incredibly grateful that no one was injured inside aside from the driver of the vehicle,\u201d coffee shop owner Teri Hope told the outlet. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37804229\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/past-evening-thanksgiving-coming-close-116454750.jpg\" alt=\"A car crashed through the front of the Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company.\" class=\"wp-image-37804229\"  \/>The Thanksgiving crash at Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company trashed the shop and sent the driver to the hospital. Facebook\/Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFixtures and furniture in half the building have been demolished,\u201d Hope said. \u201cThat is the heart of our business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photos from the scene in the aftermath of the crash show the dark-colored sedan resting on top of the debris from the shattered shop after flying through the front plate-glass window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is suspected alcohol may have played a role in this incident but all factors are being looked at as part of the ongoing investigation,\u201d Los Gatos police said in a statement. \u201cThe business was closed and unoccupied at the time of this incident and the driver was the sole occupant of the vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cops, who did not identify the driver, said he was listed in stable condition at a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Locals who frequent the popular coffee shop told ABC they were shaken to think how things may have unfolded if the crash happened at another time of day.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.81238938;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37804231\" width=\"1024\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/90-year-old-man-crashed-116455097.jpg\" alt=\"A surveillance image of a Volvo crashing into a coffee shop, leaving debris and a cloud of dust.\" class=\"wp-image-37804231\"  \/>Shocking surveillance footage shows the speeding car slam into the California coffee shop on Thanksgiving night. KRON4<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many times we\u2019ve sat in that room that\u2019s been devastated,\u201d regular Sheila Lebedenko told the outlet. \u201cAnd it\u2019s just to think that you could be sitting there drinking coffee, eating pastry, watching musicians and that could just suddenly happen.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Despite the devastation, Hope said she will try to reopen at some point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe we are going to be back on our feet shortly,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 90-year-old driver may have been drunk when he slammed his car into a California coffee shop on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2136,254,8077,9,11,10,104,58,1688],"class_list":{"0":"post-56832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-car-crashes","10":"tag-drunk-driving","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-us-news","16":"tag-viral-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}