2 taken to hospital after car plows into Dedham Star Market

Two people were taken to a hospital after a car plowed through the front of a Dedham supermarket on Friday evening.

The incident was reported at the Star Market located at 795 Providence Highway around 4:15 p.m.

There was so much broken glass at the supermarket that it had to be shoveled up by cleaning crews.

“It doesn’t seem real,” Dee Coentro said.

But for her, the scene was very much real. She said it happened just after she walked into the grocery store and grabbed a carriage to begin her shopping.

“I heard this noise, you know, a breaking, squeaking noise, Coentro said. “I looked back, and there was this white car that just drive right into the store.”

Officials said the car was driven by an 83-year-old woman, and her elderly husband was in the passenger seat. What caused her to crash into the lobby of the Star Market late Friday afternoon is still unknown.

“She was confused,” Dedham fire Lt. Michael Lessart said. “She didn’t say anything. She said, ‘I don’t know what happened.’”

Customers in the store felt the same way because it happened so fast.

“I tried to run, so I fell and just crawled as far as I could not to be hit by the car,” Coentro said.

Still shaken she made it out of the store, only to find her car had been hit by the driver before she crashed into the store.

“It’s like a movie,” Coentro said.

An investigation is underway to try and determine what caused the driver to crash into the front of the store.

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