23 injured after vehicle smashes into Denny’s restaurant in Texas
“It’s a blessing that they’re talking and alive,” one woman said of her parents.
September 4, 2023, 4:35 p.m.
Nearly two dozen people were injured after a vehicle slammed into a Denny’s restaurant in Texas, police said.
The vehicle punched through the wall of the building on Monday morning, according to Rosenberg police. Police said they received multiple 911 calls about the incident around 11:22 a.m.
Twenty-three people were injured when a car slammed into a Denny’s restaurant in Rosenberg, Texas on September 4, 2023.
KTRK
A photo released by police shows the vehicle entirely inside the restaurant, surrounded by debris.
Police released this photo after a car crashed into a Denny’s in Rosenberg, Texas on September 4, 2023.
Rosenberg Police Department
Twenty-three people inside the restaurant were injured, ranging from minor to serious, police said. All were transported to local hospitals with injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening, authorities said.
The driver was not injured, police said.
“The investigation into the causes of the accident is currently ongoing,” Rosenberg police said in a statement.
The Denny’s is located along a road off the Southwest Freeway in Rosenberg, a town about 35 miles southwest of Houston.
Sylvia Flores said her mother and father loved Denny’s and were having lunch at the restaurant when they were injured in the crash.
“[My father] “He said he heard a big bang, then all of a sudden he saw the hood of the car,” Flores told Houston’s ABC station KTRK. “The debris was everywhere.”
Twenty-three people were injured when a car slammed into a Denny’s restaurant in Rosenberg, Texas on September 4, 2023.
KTRK
Flores said her parents, who are nearly 70, have been taken to different hospitals and have “stitches all over the place.” She said her mother may have had a broken leg after a beam fell on her.
“It’s a blessing that they’re talking and alive,” Flores told KTRK. “It’s going to scare them. They won’t want to eat out for a while. But they’re fine, thank God.”
Laura Galvin told KTRK that several of her in-laws were having breakfast at a stall at Denny’s at the time, and the force of the crash pushed them into the kitchen. She said her brother-in-law bore the brunt of the impact, injuring his back, while her sister-in-law suffered lacerations and her mother-in-law had ‘bruises all over her arms and legs’ .
“Nobody expects something like this to happen, especially on the holidays,” Galvin told KTRK.
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