Man Drives “Over a Mercedes” and Crashes into Storefront in Old Town Eureka

Photos by Mark McKenna

According to our reporter Mark McKenna, a man driving a blue Toyota Sequoia “drove over a Mercedes and hit the Abraxas storefront” in Old Town Eureka around noon today.

Witnesses told McKenna that the man was traveling east on Third Street when he drifted across his lane. The man drove onto the sidewalk, crashed into a mercedes and then hit the building.

Thankfully, there were no reported injuries from the crash, and the damage to the building appeared to be fairly minor.


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Trillium Hummingbird
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Trillium Hummingbird
6 years ago

Great photos! Nice job on the benz btw.

Veterans friend
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Veterans friend
6 years ago

Drifted…?

Sam
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Sam
6 years ago

Pedal on the right !

Shaka
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Shaka
6 years ago

I wonder what the text message said any guesses?

M T
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M T
6 years ago
Reply to  Shaka

Yes, and the Insurance Companies get a copy of your cell phone records and …well you know the rest of the story. Hard to say you were not texting or on the phone when it is in black and white people!! Thank goodness nobody was hurt.

Mark McKenna
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Mark McKenna
6 years ago
Reply to  M T

He was not texting.

silverlining
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silverlining
6 years ago

Damaged a Mercedes and Abraxas(cool name).
The only thing better along those lines would be taking out a Rolls before running into a Tiffiny’s.

Sparklemahn
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Sparklemahn
6 years ago
Reply to  silverlining

Let them eat cake!

bumdady
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bumdady
6 years ago
Reply to  silverlining

On the way to breakfast

Gypsy Rose
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Gypsy Rose
6 years ago

Another one bit the dust.

Stay Strong
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Stay Strong
6 years ago

in London you’d think this was a terrorist attack

Crime stopper
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Crime stopper
6 years ago

Boy will this one be a doozey to explain to their insurance companies. You ended up where????

Emily
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Emily
6 years ago
Reply to  Crime stopper

Hopefully they have insurance!

Jayne Dough
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Jayne Dough
6 years ago
Reply to  Crime stopper

He wanted to window shop at Abraxas!

G-MAS
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G-MAS
6 years ago

Ouch!!

Michelle Steele
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Michelle Steele
6 years ago

Well it is unfortunate this happened peeps but the person could have had a medical issues here. It doesn’t fully explain what happened. Just saying

Eurekite
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Eurekite
6 years ago

Does Humboldt have the worst fucking drivers or what? Every other day some drunk/smacked/pilled out motherfucker does some reckless shit.

M T
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M T
6 years ago

Too Funny how some people can not help using the “Potty Mouth” to explain everything…can ya go a whole sentence in real time without the expletive? I am betting the answer is NO!!! TLOL

Eurekite
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Eurekite
6 years ago
Reply to  M T

You sound like the kind of idiot who crashes their SUV onto third street sidewalks after wrecking a Benz. That block is about 200 feet between stop signs, this is truly lousy driving that warrants every grown-up word in the book. Jesus fucking christ, imagine caring more about someone’s language than the epidemic of reckless driving currently plaguing our town.

spankie
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spankie
6 years ago

Possibly the driver passed out, a “medical event”.

grandmalgirl
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grandmalgirl
6 years ago
Reply to  spankie

Yeah. Could have been any kind of seizure, even an absence seizure (which can take some time to diagnose), for example. And before anyone says the driver should not have been driving with such a disorder — I had my first tonic-clonic seizure (“grand mal”) only a year ago. No warning signs and they continued happening; another family member began to have a different sort of seizure *while* driving and crashed, then was found by her husband.

Just throwing it out there that we cannot assume this was due to texting/phone use or any kind of inebriation! Maybe these are more likely causes, but the simplest theory is not always the answer.

grandmalgirl
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grandmalgirl
6 years ago
Reply to  spankie

Yeah. Could have been any kind of seizure, even an absence seizure (which can take some time to diagnose), for example. And before anyone says the driver should not have been driving with such a disorder — I had my first tonic-clonic seizure (“grand mal”) only a year ago. No warning signs and they continued happening; another family member began to have a different sort of seizure *while* driving and crashed, then was found by her husband.

Just throwing it out there that we cannot assume this was due to texting/phone use or any kind of inebriation! Maybe these are more likely causes, but the simplest theory is not always the answer.

Zoey
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Zoey
6 years ago

Bet he or she was texting or talking on their cell😠people put your phones down and drive 😡save a life!!👍

Mark McKenna
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Mark McKenna
6 years ago
Reply to  Zoey

You owe me five bucks. The driver wasn’t texting.

Emily
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Emily
6 years ago
Reply to  Mark McKenna

Prove it!!! 😜

Jean Louis
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Jean Louis
6 years ago

Nice driving! Chef from the Ingomar Club doing a front door delivery.

Jean Louis
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Jean Louis
6 years ago

No police around to administer a sobriety test on a known DUI offender?
That’s the real crime here. Nice work EPD!
http://www.times-standard.com/article/ZZ/20120219/NEWS/120219294

Fred
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Fred
6 years ago

Maybe one of his coke clients wasn’t happy with what he sold them.

Ratty
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Ratty
6 years ago

I heard a rat caused this that was running into Oberon grill.

XHumboldter
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XHumboldter
6 years ago

Speculation is a drug. It fuels our society.
Potty mouth is a sign of…

mousy
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mousy
6 years ago

how did the Oberon get to 3rd street?

Littleshits
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Littleshits
6 years ago

What’s up Abraxas!! Maybe he wanted to say what’s up in a memorable way! Hope Susan has extra dough to fix that damage,..

laya goodwyn
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laya goodwyn
6 years ago

idiot had been sucking on whip its and passed out. was a cook for the Ingomar… what a looser