The exterior of the building on Regency Parkway showing the site of impact. (Mason Souza/Sun Day Photo)
HUNTLEY – A driver crashed her car into a commercial building at 12173 Regency Parkway in Huntley just before 9 a.m. this morning. No one was injured.
The impact occurred in the area of the building that houses Kaye Eyecare. The driver isĀ reported to be an elderly woman who was a patient arriving for an eye appointment. She was not injured from the crash and employees from Kaye drove her home following the crash. They said she had mistaken the gas pedal for the brake pedal.
The crash hit a small office which an optometrist was scheduled to occupy just five minutes later. The room was empty at the time of impact.
“I thought it was the biggest thunder and lightning I ever heard,” Kathy, an employee at Kaye, said.
Upon hearing the crash, employees went outside to see what had happened. They made sure the driver was OK and then called police. The driver was described as coherent, but embarrassed. It is believed she was not driving fast, as the airbags were not deployed.
An employee at Edward Jones reported ceiling damage hadĀ occurredĀ in their building after the impact, with pieces of drywall falling onto the drop ceiling. Edward Jones is located across the hall from Kaye Eyecare.
The inside of the office that was struck by the driver. Kaye Eye Care employees said the doctor who uses the office was thankfully not in the office when it was hit. (Mason Souza/Sun Day Photo
An interior shot of the point of impact. The car punctured the wall of an office in the Kaye Eye Care facility. (Mason Souza/Sun Day Photo)
