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'Like a bomb, boom!': Car crashes through wall of Birmingham business

'Like a bomb, boom!': Car crashes through wall of Birmingham business
A WEST BIRMINGHAM BEAUTY STORE IS LOOKING FOR ANSWERS TONIGHT AFTER SOMEONE CRASHED THEIR CAR INTO THE BUILDING AND DROVE AWAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US TONIGHT AT TEN. I鈥橫 SHERI FALK 米兰体育 13. ZOE BLAIR SPOKE WITH THE OWNER ABOUT THE INCIDENT AND WHAT THIS MEANS FOR HIS BUSINESS. WE HAD LIKE A BOMB BOOM ALL OF A SUDDEN AND WE SEE THE WIG START FLYING. AND WHEN WE CAME OUT, YOU KNOW, BY THE TIME I CAME AROUND THE BUILDING, I SEE THE HONDA PULLING UP AND TAKING OFF LIKE A BOMB WENT OFF. THAT鈥橲 HOW BEAUTY MASTERS OWNER SAMIR KADIR DESCRIBED THE MOMENT WHEN A CAR CRASHED INTO HIS BUILDING, LEAVING A HOLE IN THE STORE. THEN THE DRIVER LEFT THE SCENE. NOW KADIR IS LEFT TO TRY AND REPAIR THE DAMAGE. THE CONSTRUCTION, THE YOU KNOW, ALL THESE, YOU KNOW, MERCHANDISE GOT DAMAGED WITH, YOU KNOW, ALL THESE INSTALLATION. SAND THAT FALL FROM THE BRICKS. YOU KNOW, THE MATERIAL, THE TIME. WE鈥橪L PROBABLY HAVE TO CLOSE, YOU KNOW? YOU KNOW, AT LEAST FOR ONE DAY OR TWO DAYS. AND, YOU KNOW, BE IN SATURDAY, ON SUNDAY, YOU KNOW, IT鈥橲 GOING TO COST US SOME MONEY TO FIX IT. THIS IS THE HOLE THE CAR LEFT WHEN IT CRASHED INTO THE BUILDING. NOW, WHERE I鈥橫 STANDING RIGHT NOW, THIS WOULD NORMALLY BE HERE, AND THERE WOULD BE A PERSON BEHIND IT SELLING WIGS, PUTTING THEM RIGHT IN THE PATH OF THAT CAR CRASH. THANKFULLY, THEY WERE NOT HERE TODAY. KADIR TELLS ME NO ONE WAS INJURED IN THE ACCIDENT, AND HE鈥橲 GRATEFUL FOR THAT. BUT HE WISHES THE DRIVER WOULD HAVE JUST BEEN HONEST ABOUT THEIR MISTAKE. I WILL, I WILL FORGIVE HIM. I MEAN, EVERYBODY CAN HAVE ACCIDENT, YOU KNOW? YOU KNOW, MISTAKES HAPPEN, ACCIDENTS HAPPEN. I WISH I WISH IT OKAY. THOUGH HIS CUSTOMERS ECHOED THAT STATEMENT, ENCOURAGING THE DRIVER TO COME FORWARD. YOU SHOULD HAVE CAME IN AND TOLD HIM SO HE CAN GET HIS PLACE, YOU KNOW, FIXED LIKE YOU. THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE COURTESY AND THE RIGHT THING TO DO. UNTIL THEY CAN GET IT FIXED. THEY鈥橰E PATCHING THE HOLE IN BEAUTY MASTERS IS STILL OPE
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'Like a bomb, boom!': Car crashes through wall of Birmingham business
A Birmingham beauty supply business is picking up the pieces after a car rammed through its wall Saturday.It happened shortly after 5 p.m. at Beauty Masters located at 919 Lomb Avenue. That's in the Arlington-West End neighborhood.The impact left a gaping hole in the brick wall, revealing rebar and the inside of the store. The car's bumper was left behind in the rubble.The owner of the store, Samir Kader, said surveillance video shows a Honda Accord pulling quickly up to the parking space. It ran over the cement parking barrier, through the wall, then backed up and left the property.See live coverage at the scene:"We heard like a bomb, boom! All of a sudden we see the wigs start flying and by the time we came around the building, I see the Honda pulling out and taking off," Kader said.From inside the store you can see clearly through several feet of the wall into the parking lot.No word on what led to the crash. No one inside the store was injured. The owner wishes the driver would have stayed at the scene and been honest about the mistake."I would forgive them," Kader said. "I mean, everybody can have accidents, mistakes happen, accidents happen. I wish they are okay though."The business will have to close for at least one to two days for repairs.>> FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL: Facebook | X | Instagram | YouTube

A Birmingham beauty supply business is picking up the pieces after a car rammed through its wall Saturday.

It happened shortly after 5 p.m. at Beauty Masters located at 919 Lomb Avenue. That's in the Arlington-West End neighborhood.

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The impact left a gaping hole in the brick wall, revealing rebar and the inside of the store. The car's bumper was left behind in the rubble.

Bumper left behind after vehicle crashes through wall of business
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The owner of the store, Samir Kader, said surveillance video shows a Honda Accord pulling quickly up to the parking space. It ran over the cement parking barrier, through the wall, then backed up and left the property.

See live coverage at the scene:

"We heard like a bomb, boom! All of a sudden we see the wigs start flying and by the time we came around the building, I see the Honda pulling out and taking off," Kader said.

From inside the store you can see clearly through several feet of the wall into the parking lot.

You can see the parking lot from hole left in wall of business after car smashed through it
Hearst Owned

No word on what led to the crash. No one inside the store was injured.

The owner wishes the driver would have stayed at the scene and been honest about the mistake.

"I would forgive them," Kader said. "I mean, everybody can have accidents, mistakes happen, accidents happen. I wish they are okay though."

The business will have to close for at least one to two days for repairs.

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