A College Area business owner was cleaning up Wednesday after a stolen car drifted right into the front of his store.
Nathan Brooks owns the custom silk screening business B and D Enterprises on El Cajon Boulevard.
He’s now picking up the pieces after a car crashed the front window of the building and damaged some stucco.
“I just couldn’t believe a car actually had driven through my wall,” Brooks said. “I was thinking how is that possible? There are curbs and stuff.”
The vehicle, a 1993 Honda Accord, was stolen around 2 a.m. from a home in Lake Murray. The car’s owner saw the Honda driving off and called 911.
San Diego State University police spotted the car near Montezuma and College but lost it according to San Diego police Lt. Mark Bennett.
When campus police saw the vehicle again in the 5900-block of El Cajon Boulevard, they tried to pull over the driver.
Two people then bailed out of the moving car and took off running, Bennett said.
That’s when the car slammed into the front of Brooks’ store going about 5 miles per hour. Still, it was enough to do damage.
“I was just totally shocked, really shocked,” Brooks told NBC 7. “What else could go wrong?”
Lt. Bennett said officers searched the area for the suspects but made no arrests.
No one was injured in the crash.