RICHMOND, Va. -- A man was taken to the hospital Tuesday after he drove into Master's Touch Church Ministries on West Broad Street in Richmond Tuesday morning around 8:30.
Witnesses said the man said he had no memory of driving and “woke up” once inside the church.
The driver crossed all lanes of West Broad Street before he drove onto the church parking lot and into the building, witnesses reported.
No one was inside the building when the SUV drove inside.
Chad Keith had just pulled into work across the street, when he looked up to see SUV slam into the side of the building.
“Just flew straight into it. Looked like it was just, on purpose, bam,” Keith said.
Keith is in town scouting locations to film the movie “Loving,” which is the story of an interracial marriage that changed history in the 1967 Supreme Court case ‘Loving v. Virginia.’
“It seemed like we were shooting a scene for a film,” Keith said.
A security camera at a nearby business captured surveillance video of the crash.
“I thought they were going at least 40 if not 50 miles per hour,” Keith said.
Police said the SUV hit a Verizon box on the sidewalk across Broad Street before careening across six lanes of traffic.
“It was angled, like you could tell it had just jumped the median and came across the parking lot in front of the deli,” Keith said.
The driver was taken to the hospital with injuries. He was able to walk out of his SUV and into the ambulance, a Richmond Police spokesman added.
Richmond Police are still investigating the crash, but at this point no charges have been placed.
