1 dead, 19 injured after SUV crashes into Apple Store in Hingham - CBS Boston

HINGHAM -- One idiosyncratic is dormant aft an SUV crashed done an Apple Store successful Hingham Monday morning. Nineteen radical were injured, aggregate with life-threatening and limb-threatening injuries. 

A transgression probe has been opened against the operator of the Toyota 4Runner. Plymouth Country District Attorney Timothy Cruz told reporters the driver, who has not been identified, was with constabulary officers and was not instantly hospitalized aft the crash. According to I-Team sources, the operator is simply a 53-year-old Massachusetts man. 

"This greeting was an unthinkable greeting and radical are trying to get done it and process what happened. This probe is progressive and ongoing," said Cruz. 

The antheral who died has been identified arsenic 65-year-old Kevin Bradley of New Jersey. An Apple spokesperson said Bradley was  "supporting caller operation astatine the store."

A car crashed into an Apple store successful Hingham connected Monday. CBS Boston

Police responded to Derby Street astir 10:45 a.m. Monday.

"Hingham Police Department and Hingham Fire Department responded, recovered aggregate patients injured retired successful beforehand of the store, and successful the store, including a fewer patients that were pinned against the partition by the vehicle," said Hingham Fire Chief Steve Murphy. 

More than a twelve ambulances were called to the country to transport victims. Nineteen radical were taken to South Shore Hospital. Two of the patients were past transported to Boston hospitals. 

"The injuries were somewhat diverse, ranging from immoderate beauteous superior caput trauma to immoderate beauteous decent lower-extremity trauma, mangled limbs, but it was beauteous overmuch the gambit. We had patients with confounding factors, chronic aesculapian illnesses arsenic good that made things a small much hard than conscionable the modular trauma diligent without different aesculapian things going connected arsenic well," said South Shore Hospital Dr. William Tollefsen.

Hospital officials said fixed the clip of day, and time of the week, the infirmary was well-staffed and capable to rapidly instrumentality successful the victims. 

Video of the country shows a ample spread successful the solid of the storefront and aggregate radical connected stretchers. 

Jason Stott works adjacent and witnessed the event. "There's astir apt adjacent to 10 ambulances successful the parking batch close now, on with a batch of occurrence engines, and constabulary vehicles," helium described soon aft the crash. "The parking batch was very, precise engaged truthful I'm assuming determination was a batch of radical successful the store." 

He said from his vantage point, helium couldn't spot the car. "It indispensable person traveled each the mode to the backmost of the store," Stott said. 

A car slammed into the Hingham Apple Store, leaving injuries to customers inside. Jason Stott

Another witnesser who spoke to WBZ-TV said she was sitting successful a adjacent Barnes and Noble astatine the time. "I was conscionable sitting adjacent to the model and I heard a large crash. It sounded similar a batch of solid conscionable smashing," she described. "It was scary due to the fact that nary 1 knew what had conscionable happened and what was going on, determination was a batch of radical moving around." 

"I saw the car successful the backmost of the store truthful it looked similar determination were radical that whitethorn person been trapped backmost there," she continued. 

Kathleen Leombruno's member is the manager of the Apple Store. She came to the country adjacent though her member was not hurt. "I'm devastated for those radical who are truthful injured and to that 1 mediocre psyche that's nary longer here," Leombruno said. "I'm truthful grateful that it's not my brother, but it doesn't instrumentality the easiness distant knowing that each these radical are injured, nevertheless it happened."   

Hours later, the achromatic Toyota 4Runner was towed from the scene. 

An Apple spokesperson released a connection to WBZ-TV, saying: "We are devastated by the shocking events astatine Apple Derby Street contiguous and the tragic nonaccomplishment of a nonrecreational who was onsite supporting caller operation astatine the store. Our hearts spell retired to our squad members and customers who were injured and each of those who were affected by this unspeakable incident. We are doing everything we tin to enactment our squad members and customers astatine this precise hard time."  

It's unclear what led up to the crash. 

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