Repairs Underway After Car Plows Through Restaurant

By: Mark Kennedy Email

Updated: Tue 2:27 PM, Aug 28, 2007

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Engineers are assessing a Richmond restaurant after it was damaged by a car last night.

Structural engineers have already condemned the Long John Silvers.

Police say it appears the driver, Nathan Baker of Berea, blacked out and lost control on the Eastern Bypass went off the road, down a ditch and through a parking lot before hitting the restaurant.

Baker's car then hit an SUV which was in the drive thru.

Baker was taken to the hospital with non life threatening injuries.

No one inside in Long John Silver's was hurt.

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