CHICAGO — A bakery on the South Side is having to pivot after a driver plowed into their freezer.
On Sunday morning, police responded to Brown Sugar Bakery, located in the 300 block of East 75th Street, after the report of a vehicle into the building.
The bakery’s brand new $20,000 walk-in freezer was destroyed after a vehicle slammed into the building.
“You shouldn’t be going fast enough to ever end up over a sidewalk and into a building,” said founder Stephanie Hart. “I’m assuming it was a terrible accident.”
The driver of the vehicle was able to get away before authorities arrived at the scene.
Hart said she’s just thankful no one was inside at the time – and the neighborhood helped her clean up the mess.
As Easter approaches and orders continue to come in, Hart is using the old Cupid Candies factory — which she bought to expand into the candy business — to bake in.
“Just hope that these people, whoever they were, one or two people, I’m assuming there’s more than one because I don’t see how one person coulda got out of that alone, that they’re ok,” Hart said.
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