But we do want to jump back into this
press conference that's happening
right now with the public Information
officer at the scene of this RV
that went into a Winchell's Donuts
win. And if we can talk to the driver,
we kind of know what what to
ask and where to go from there.
Inside the shop.
Yes, everybody who was inside
the the restaurant at the time,
from what understanding were injured.
But to what extent? We don't know.
And with that being said,
I've been told that none of them
are life threatening injuries.
How does this get resolved today?
I mean, that looks like extensive damage.
It does city of Lakewood building.
Inspectors have already been
here and deemed it inhabitable.
And that's it. They've tagged it
and done their process to do that.
So right now we're in the process of
doing our our traffic investigation.
The crash investigation.
At that point,
our tow company will show up fire.
W Metro Fire is going to stay on scene and
help with when the motorhome or the RV
is pulled out to make sure the building,
whatever happens, happens and we have them
here for support in that in that respect.
So we're looking at a process right
now completing our investigation.
Doing the diagramming,
the scanning the photos and then we
will work on removal of the RV and
then after that becomes what do we
do with the building and that's when
W Metro building inspectors will
do more of their side of of this
and I apologize.
Those injuries there is so many
different people were involved.
We had four people inside the RV,
an unknown amount of patrons inside the shop.
How many people total were injured?
We know that W Metro fire saying
two people taken to the hospital
and that's the numbers during.
I'm still working on
just because like I said,
there was a little confusion when
we all got here at first of people
that were in the motorhome versus
people that were patrons in the
restaurant and trying to identify
who is where in this in this crash.
This time, though,
two people taking the hospital.
We just don't know if they
were in the RV or in the
correct right and if there were
more taking the hospital W Metro.
Obviously with their response.
I have not got with their division chief
yet to kind of pinpoint those the the.
The part that that is
encouraging is right now.
We were told nobody has
life threatening injuries,
but I just don't know to what extent
the injuries were leading up to that.
Correct, correct.
Yeah, we're still pinpointing the
exact number of involved people
here. One more question about speed.
Do you think that there were speed
involved in this or do you think that
there was a undulation in the traffic
area that may have caused this?
Right now, from the preliminary
videos that we've looked at,
speed doesn't seem to be a concern.
With the exception of,
it's an RV that an RV doing the
speed limit turning is probably a
little different than our SUV's,
our sedans and stuff.
Doing the speed limit making
a turn that's a little bit,
we want to look at.
But right now we don't have anything
that's rising to the reckless level
that there's any intent or any.
Any thoughts of of the reckless part?
And like I said, that's just going from
the preliminary videos that we've seen.
It looks more like the driver of the RV
lost control while making that left turn.
And Pierce the Colfax and then at that
point they're they're just it's a ride,
right to the impact of the the business.
Can you tell me how crucial these
traffic Halo cameras are in
investigating this whole thing?
Very crucial. They're they're truly an
independent witness to this whole event.
This crash and any other crash
you know that we have here and
in our different locations.
It's very beneficial in giving us a
true picture of of what took place.
And can you speak?
Collapse rescue teams.
I know they're with W Metro,
but can you speak?
I guess you know you said you're
gonna be out here for a couple hours,
but the building is uninhabitable.
You mentioned how long
could that repair take
to, you know?
Well right now, W Metro is doing a great
job of of shoring it up and making it
as safe as they can so that we can get
in there and get that RV pulled out.
And then it's a matter of looking at the
big picture of of the extent of damage,
and that's where the building inspectors
will go back in and look at it.
And and. Kind of go from there
when there RV gets pulled out.
As far as the Police Department goes,
that's where I mean.
I'm not a building inspector,
so we leave it to them and those
professionals like you said,
fires doing the West.
Metro is doing a great job right now.
One to get all those people out safely.
None of you know there were no firemen,
no police. You know, injured in all this.
You know we had a great response
from both agencies for this.
And that's where right now it's it's
stabilized and so now we can slow down
and kind of do that process of get
what we need for the investigation,
get the RV removed and then we
can worry about you know the
structural integrity of the business.
I'm sorry I didn't hear
you, sorry you. You said there was
no reckless driving. You believed
you feel like there's any charges
right now. Right now,
charges are are not even being considered.
We want to be able to kind of sort
out and make sure we know what took
place given the cameras and interviews
with witnesses and and and all that.
So that's something that down the
road we can certainly look at from the
preliminary views that we're seeing on
the cameras and some of the first initial
witness statements right now the RV
lost control while making that left turn.
And and to me,
that kind of falls into the careless statute.
For whatever reason,
this driver lost control is
what we'd really like to know.
What about everybody else over
they take and it doesn't look
like they're on scene, right?
That I don't know I I don't know if
they set up different hospitals,
you know and took them there
that I I honestly don't know.
Thank you Sir. You bet. Ohh you bet.
Alrighty, you're really good at this.
Alright, so we've been listening
into one and went on with the
RV that crashed into the wind.
Chill Donuts, sounds like two
people transported to the hospital
non life threatening injuries.
Also sounds like the RV
might have lost control.
Taking a left on to that and they're
still investigating into what
happened exactly before the big thing,
the RV removal and then what's going
to happen to the structure right?
You can see why
they deemed it uninhabitable
once they pull it out.
I mean that building looks like it has
been crushed and again they're looking.
Into whether speed was maybe a
factor in terms of it being an RV,
going too fast in this area,
they'll probably look into if
there were any medical issues,
but we did see two people
wheeled out on gurneys, you know,
considering the time of day,
and it was a donut shop,
it's surprising there wasn't more
people inside, so that is a good thing.
And it doesn't sound like the
injuries are life threatening
from what he was describing,
so that is good as well,
but obviously a huge investigation
going forward.
Yeah, so we'll be. Stay tuned for that.
We'll have live reports from Jordan as well.