Car drives into Dyker Heights storefront just days after similar crash in Bay Ridge
A car crashed into a Dyker Heights gift shop late Tuesday evening, making it the second vehicle to crash into a storefront in the area in four days.
According to witnesses, a Lexus ran a stop sign at the corner of 68th Street and Eighth Avenue where it was hit by another car, an SUV. The SUV then lost control and drove into the front of Chung Yi Gift Inc., 6724 Eighth Avenue.
Fire Department officials said the call came in at 11:05 p.m., at which time Ladder 109 responded. Three people were involved in the incident, two of whom refused medical attention. The third was transported to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in serious but stable condition.