Three hospitalized after car drives into pharmacy

ByJESSA LEWIS 6 News Reporter

KNOXVILLE (WATE) - Three people were injured Thursday when a car accidentally drove into the storefront of a Knoxville pharmacy.

A man's Ford Explorer crashed into Mac's Pharmacy on Washington Pike around 1:30 p.m.

Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk said a man was picking up his wife from a beauty shop across the street from the pharmacy.

That's when the driver, Dewey Kidwell, 80, said the gas pedal of his Ford Explorer got stuck and drove straight across the road and into the building.

Witnesses are still startled by what happened, and say their first instinct was to make sure everyone was alright.

"I mean it was like at my cash register, and then it went on up into the pharmacy area," said witness and Mac's Pharmacy employee Brenda Underwood.

Employees and customers inside the Washington Pike pharmacy were shocked when an SUV crashed through the front door.

"I had just waited on a customer, she was getting ready to walk out, and here comes a car, just flying through the front door, past, knocks over one of the displays and just ran up into the back of the pharmacy area," Underwood explained.

Kidwell's wife, Ann, was taken to Tennova Hospital after the accident. Her husband received no injuries.

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Three hospitalized after car drives into pharmacy