TY-8 Thai restaurant in Cliftonville is closed until further notice after a car smashed through the front of the building.
The crash took out the front of the Northdown Road restaurant at around midnight. It is understood a vehicle hit a taxi which then went into the property.
It is reported that a driver left the scene. This is yet to be confirmed by Kent Police. The taxi driver was attended to by paramedics.
Emergency services were at the scene into the early hours of today (June 9). Gas company workers have also been called in to deal with a leak following the incident.
Restaurant boss Ceci said she is still in shock but also feels ‘lucky’ as if the crash had happened 10 minutes earlier her husband may well have been hit while he was clearing the rubbish.
She said: “It was shocking. We live above, it is a family run business. At the time my husband was still in the kitchen tidying up but 10 minutes earlier he had been putting the rubbish in the front so he would have been hit.”
Ceci says police helped find someone to board up the front of the business but the family will have to wait until tomorrow to get in contact with the insurance company and get builders in.
A Kent Fire & Rescue Service spokesperson said: “Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called at 00.15am to reports of a vehicle crashing into a business on Northdown Road.
“Crews were there to assist Kent Police and SECAmb.”
Kent Police and South East Coast Ambulance Service have been contacted for further details.
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