Driver crashes into businesses on Raleigh’s Glenwood Avenue

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — When David Benson showed up Sunday evening at his business, Third Place Coffeeshop, things were much different than the last time he saw them.

His outdoor seating, along with his neighbor’s Lilly’s Pizza, was littered all across the sidewalk on Glenwood Avenue. Immediately next door at Leslie Jandrain Art, there was a black Infiniti resting halfway into the art studio with its trunk sticking out onto the sidewalk.

“It was a mess,” Benson said. “There was dirt everywhere.”

There’s still some cleanup left to finish a day after a driver, accused of racing, jumped the curb before taking out the front of several businesses in Raleigh’s Five Points neighborhood. The art studio where the car crashed into has only been open since March 1. #ABC11 pic.twitter.com/8tdJpFVj31

— DeJuan Hoggard (@DeJuanABC11) July 5, 2021

According to Benson and staffers at Lilly’s Pizza, the driver of the car was speeding or racing down Glenwood Avenue…

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