Car Crash Just Like Those In Action Movies

Diners at a Spokane Valley restaurant must have thought they were watching an action movie come to life Sunday afternoon.

A Spokane man lost control of his 1993 Buick LeSabre about 3 p.m. as he was pulling into a parking spot at 4B’s Restaurant on Argonne Road.

The car driven by Rudy Hussein, a 71-year-old retired Marine, suddenly accelerated and slammed into a minivan, flipping it on its side and pushing it up the lawn toward the restaurant’s windows, said waiter Shane Daugherty, who witnessed the accident.

“I was just turning to sit down and here comes this car right at us,” said Valley resident Harold Curryer, whose Chrysler LeBaron was also hit.

After hitting the van, Hussein’s car jerked into reverse and crashed into a mid-sized sedan. That car was knocked 300 yards across the parking lot, stopping inches short of the neighboring Boston Market restaurant, witnesses said.

Hussein’s car then hit Curryer’s Chrysler and a pickup truck before stalling.

No one was injured.

Curryer said there was surprisingly little damage to the vehicles involved.

“It was something out of a Jules Verne story,” he said. “We thought (Hussein) must have been some sort of a drunken madman, but he was very sorry for what happened.”

Added Daughterty: “It’s a good thing no one was walking through the lot or they wound have been nailed.”

, DataTimes