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Apple CEO Tim Cook has paid a sojourn to victims of the November 21 car mishap astatine the Apple Store successful Hingham, Massachusetts, seeing survivors successful hospital.

Cook and Deirdre O'Brien visited the South Shore Hospital connected Friday to conscionable with immoderate of the patients wounded successful the Apple Derby Street crash. The sojourn saw Cook speech to the families and victims of the tragedy, which progressive an SUV plowing done the storefront's glass.

In a statement to Yahoo News, the infirmary said it was grateful that Cook, O'Brien, and others from Apple were capable to sojourn immoderate of the injured patients. South Shore Health President and CEO Allen Smith noted "The genuine caring and kindness shown by Tim and his squad connected this sojourn did truthful overmuch to assistance the spirits of the patients and our colleagues."

Smith besides praised the infirmary unit members who helped the patients, including the EMS, exigency room, trauma and captious attraction teams, and doctors and nurses who provided attraction and support.

The infirmary wasn't the lone spot Cook was spotted successful the area, arsenic helium besides appeared astatine the Alba Restaurant successful Quincy. Owner Leo Keka remarked that Cook's sojourn was "something different, this was thing special. Tim walked successful the doorway a precise happy, classy person."

Cook reportedly spent clip astatine the edifice and extended the aforesaid kindness to employees and customers. "He was truly bully to our staff, took a representation with a batch of the regulars arsenic good erstwhile helium walked retired and it was a pleasure," said Keka.

The mishap connected November 21 progressive 53-year-old Bradley Rein driving his Toyota 4Runner done the beforehand solid astatine speed, stopping lone erstwhile helium deed the Store's rear wall. The driver claimed his ft got stuck connected the state and helium couldn't brake successful time.

One idiosyncratic was killed successful the accident, with aggregate others injured and immoderate ended up pinned against the wall.

At the time, Apple issued a connection stating it was "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."

Rein has since been arrested and held connected a $100,000 bail implicit the crash, and is owed to instrumentality to tribunal connected December 22.

Barriers person been placed extracurricular the store. It is chartless erstwhile it volition reopen.