Thursday, 4:30 PM
Car crashes into Marblehead jewelry store
By Globe Staff
The glittering stuff at a jewelry store on Atlantic Avenue in Marblehead this morning wasn't diamonds. It was broken glass.
A car leaving the drive-through lane of a bank crashed into two other cars, and then careened headlong into the store, coming to rest inside it, police said.
Lt. Matthew Freeman said the 85-year-old Marblehead woman who was driving the car that caused the damage was taken to the hospital. The woman, whose name hasn’t been released, has been cited for negligent operation, he said.
Sandra Burke said she was just a minute away from arriving at her store, Nuggets, to open up this morning when police cars whizzed by her. Arriving at her store, she found the front window destroyed, along with other damage.
"The windows are gone. My cases are gone. The walls are gone," she said this afternoon. "Shock is not the word for it. I think I’m still in a little bit of shock. After 23 years, yes."
"It was pretty unbelievable. ... I was one minute away from coming into my business," she said.
She said only a very small amount of jewelry had been on display because most of it is locked in the safe at night.
