A car plowed into a Waterbury market in Connecticut early Thursday, causing the deaths of four people and the partial collapse of a building, police said.
The brutal crash occurred around 12:47 a.m., at a building on the corner of Cherry Street and Maple Avenue, police said, according to Lt. Ryan Bessette of the Waterbury Police Department. A sign on the property says “Hernandez Market,” NBC Connecticut reported.
When emergency crews arrived on the scene, they found four people fatally injured inside the vehicle involved. They were all pronounced dead on the scene, Bessette told the Hartford Courant. Few other details have been provided about the victims, and they have not yet been identified.
Bessette said no one inside the building was injured, adding that no one was in the portion of the market that was struck by the car.
The building itself was left partially destroyed, and crews were still working to separate the mangled car from the structure.
The cause of the crash was unclear and under investigation by the Waterbury Police Department’s Crash Reconstruction Unit. Cherry Street between East Main Street and Walnut Street was expected to remained closed for the foreseeable future while the investigation unfolds.
It comes just days after three people were killed in a head-on collision in Newton. That crash is also under investigation.
