7 injured after driver plows into checkout area at California grocery store

An out-of-control driver crashed an SUV into a Sonoma County supermarket
Friday, injuring seven people. 

The unidentified female driver slammed her Hyundai Tucson through the
front of Oliver’s Market at at 560 Montecito Center in Santa Rosa just
before noon, police said. 

The  SUV careened into the store’s checkout area, and those injured
appeared to be inside the store at the time. 

Four people sustained minor to major injuries and were transported to
hospitals, a spokesman for the Santa Rosa Police Department said. Two
others were transported to hospitals with mild injuries. Two more
individuals were treated at the scene and released, while another person
refused medical treatment. 

The incident is being treated as an accident and no criminality is
suspected, the police spokesman said. 

The driver, described by police as an adult female, remained at the
scene and is cooperating with the investigation. 

Police said the store was expected to remain closed for at least the
remainder of the day. 

Last week, an elderly woman plowed into a busy grocery store in Los
Angeles, killing three people and injuring at least six. 

On Sunday, a 49-year-old man drove into the front of a supermarket in
the mountain town of Truckee, injuring four people, including children. 

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