14 DAY TRIAL // 10 people have been injured when a motorist slammed into a Las Vegas restaurant on Monday, April 1.
According to the Las Vegas Sun, an 18-year-old boy drove into the Egg & I diner in a 1993 Lexus LS400 at 12:37 p.m.
Gage Lindsey is currently held at Clark County Detention Center, since he was arrested on Monday night.
Police have detained him on DUI charges brought on by drug use, reckless driving, and hit and run counts. Neither him nor his 21-year-old passenger, David Roldan, were injured in the accident.
However, 10 customers at the diner have been transported to University Medical Center and Sunrise Hospital with non-life-threatening wounds. The extent and severity of their injuries is not known at this point.
The car was involved in collisions with two other vehicles before swerving and plowing onto the patio and eventually coming to a halt as it struck the restaurant building.
The drivers of the two cars, a 2010 Mitsubishi Galant and a 2006 Ford F-150 pickup truck, were not severely injured in the crash. The Ford driver escaped unscathed, while the motorist in the Mitsubishi suffered minor wounds.
NBC writes that a young boy, 12 or 13, was among four people who remained trapped under the Lexus Sedan after it careered into the dining area. The driver and the man he was with tried to make a run for it after the crash, but were apprehended by bystanders.
“[A woman] was on her stomach. [...] The only reason that car did not fall down on her was there was a chair that was kind of jacked up holding it and a portion of it, but it was on her, too,” described witness Suziliene McDonald, who watched the scene from across the street.
“As serious as it was, we are amazed there were no fatalities,” Las Vegas Fire Department spokesman Tim Szymanski comments for the Las Vegas Review Journal.