Surveillance footage posted to social media over the weekend showed the horrifying moment an SUV crashed through a crowded fast food restaurant window in Detroit, sending people scrambling for safety.
The crash occurred at Zorba’s Coney Island on Detroit’s east side around 1am on New Year’s Day, according to WXYZ, as several patrons waited in line for food.
The impact of the crash sent customers flying through the restaurant, but miraculously, police said, nobody was injured.
Detroit police have now identified the suspects in the terrifying video and are investigating the incident as a hit-and-run with surveillance footage from outside the restaurant showing the driver walk away following the impact.
‘The video is disturbing and troubling to say the least,’ Deputy Chief Rudy Haper told WXYZ in a statement. ‘The suspects clearly have no regard for human life and need to do the right thing and turn themselves into authorities immediately.’
The suspects names have not yet been publicly released.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the Detroit Police Department for more information.
Surveillance footage from inside Zorba’s Coney Island in east Detroit on January 1 shows a man sitting at a booth being pushed by an SUV that drove through the window
The crash occurred at around 1am on New Years Day, leaving the restaurant in ruins as at least three people were struck by the car
Detroit police are investigating the crash as a hit-and-run, with surveillance footage from the store’s parking lot showing the driver get out of his car and walk away
Surveillance footage of the crash showed customers waiting on line at the order counter of Zorba’s Coney Island early on New Year’s Day, when a man sitting at a booth is pushed towards the window by a gray SUV.
He crashes into the order window, but manages to avoid serious harm and is able to get up and run to safety before running back behind the order counter, which is smashed and broken upon impact.
Another woman who was pinned down by the counter could be seen banging on the order window for help, as footage from the front door shows a man standing on line completely knocked down by the car.
Others were seen running as the car crashed through the glass window, while others hid behind the window as screams and cries rung out.
The driver crashed straight into the order window at the fast food restaurant
The order counter is smashed and broken upon impact as workers tried to hide behind the window for their safety
The crash occurred at Zorba’s Coney Island (pictured) in east Detroit
Meanwhile, security footage from outside the restaurant showed the gray SUV quickly turning into the parking lot.
It squeezes past two parked car, scraping them up as it passes by, and drives right into the window, leaving rubble behind in its wake.
The driver eventually reverses the SUV as people inside could be heard screaming.
Once the front end of the SUV is backed up far enough, a man could be seen getting out of the driver’s seat.
He is soon chased by a woman who got out of the car’s passenger side door, and screams at him ‘I f****** knew it,’ and ‘What the f**** wrong with you?’
As she goes to get something from the driver’s side, the man walks away from the camera with his hands on his head.
Following that exchange, store manager Lisa Foster said, the man appeared to be drunk and was staggering as he tried to hide behind the restaurant’s garbage can.
The woman in the video quickly found him, Foster told WXYZ, ‘and was screaming “Lorenzo, Lorenzo.”‘
Surveillance footage from the exterior of the restaurant also showed the SUV pulling into the parking lot at a high speed
The driver squeezed between two parked cars before smashing into the window
Following the crash, the driver managed to back p and escape the car as a woman in the passenger seat chased and yelled at him
Foster said her boss and some of her coworkers ‘literally had to pry the door open to lift this big brick off’ of one woman.
‘Someone could have been killed,’ she said. ‘He could have actually killed someone.’
But fortunately, no serious injuries were reported.