A semi-truck crashed right into a Starbucks in Oceanside early Wednesday, injuring an worker and prompting a rescue for the driving force who was trapped contained in the cab.
The accident occurred round 4:45 a.m. Wednesday at 801 N. Coast Freeway, in response to the Oceanside Fire Department.
“Seems like he was exiting the 76, perhaps misplaced his brakes,” Wes McGee, a battalion chief with the Oceanside Fireplace Division, advised Onscene.Media.
The motive force went by way of a single wall block and into the facet of a Starbucks and ended up within the electrical room, McGee added.
The motive force’s rescue was delayed because of the ensuing electrical hazard. San Diego Gas & Electric shut down the constructing’s energy, permitting firefighters to extricate the driving force from the car.
“The vicim was trapped inside,” McGee mentioned. “The extrication did take some time.”
The Starbucks can be closed down whereas constructing inspectors examine its structural integrity. In the meantime, workers and clients had been evacuated.
The motive force and one in every of three workers working on the time sustained unspecified non-life-threatening accidents and had been taken by paramedics to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, officers mentioned.
A hazardous supplies workforce from the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department was referred to as out as a consequence of a possible rupture within the truck’s diesel gas tank, however no hazardous spills had been reported.
“The constructing has been deemed briefly unsafe and is pending an entire structural analysis,” the division mentioned in an announcement.
Energy close to the constructing space was shut down in the course of the accident and crews had been working to revive service.
Coastal site visitors was snarled for a number of hours. Motorists had been inspired to hunt alternate routes.
The Oceanside Police Department was investigating the reason for the crash.
Metropolis Information Service contributed to this report.
