Five injured after driver crashes into downtown UPS store in Santa Fe
Four of the injured were taken to an area hospital, and one declined transport for medical attention, Santa Fe police Deputy Chief Ben Valdez said.
One person sustained what Valdez referred to as "serious injuries" to their legs, but none of the injuries was life-threatening, he said.
The crash occurred shortly after 3 p.m. Monday at the UPS store on North Guadalupe Street in the downtown area, he said. The driver — a woman in a Tesla — was not injured.
Valdez said police did not observe any signs the driver was impaired.
The store was closed Monday after the crash, with paper, debris and shards of glass littering the floor of the shop. Caution tape was strung across a vehicle-sized hole through the glass storefront.
Santa Fean Damian Horne, 66, said he was talking on the phone and walking around the corner of the building when he heard what sounded like an explosion 10 feet away.
"I looked in, and it was carnage," he said. "The car had gone straight through the plate glass window, and destroyed the counter they had there. ... It was not only completely inside the store — it was almost completely through it."
Horne — who is a former public defender as well as a combat veteran who served in the Iraq War — said he and another veteran ran into the building to render aid to the handful of people who were injured in the crash.
He said several women were injured inside the store, one of them with fallen cabinets on top of her and another sprawled over the hood of the car with injuries to her feet and legs.
"It was like a mortar had landed at UPS," Horne said. "People are screaming and yelling, and there's bleeding going on."
Santa Fe police and paramedics then arrived and quickly took over rendering aid to the injured, he said.
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