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July 31, 2006

SUV crashes into Warren Convenience Store

WARREN -- Two men were inside the Warren Convenience Store at 10 a.m. today when a gray Mercury Mountaineer crashed though the store’s front window and nearly hit one of the men.

No one was hurt in the crash at 630 Metacom Ave., Sgt. Joe DaSilva Jr. said.

When the driver, a 17-year-old Bristol boy, pulled into the store parking lot, he stepped on the brake, but it didn't work, according Lt. Joseph Loiselle.

Kiran D’souza, the nephew of store owner Nalin Patel, was working when the SUV came rolling through the front window.

“I was behind the counter, and there was a customer in the store,” he said. "[The SUV] just missed the customer by a couple of inches."

The building sustained no major structural damage, according to town building official William J. Nash Jr.

The police are still investigating.

-- Journal Staff Writer Justin Amoah

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