Car crashes into Bath Beach deli, patron slaps driver
A two-car collision Thursday morning sent a vehicle careening into a Cropsey Avenue deli, culminating in the arrest of a former store employee who, authorities say, assaulted the driver.
Cops say that a 75-year-old woman was driving her Nissan Sentra near Bay 25th Street and Cropsey Avenue shortly before 9 a.m. when her car was struck by a FedEx van. Authorities say the van hit the rear of the vehicle, but witnesses allege that the driver of the commercial vehicle said she hit the car lightly and that the Nissan driver kept going — straight into the front of the Royal Deli at 2024 Cropsey Ave.
The Nissan crashed through the door and windows of the store, mangling racks of merchandise and narrowly missing two employees and a patron.