Car crashed through Central Chevrolet showroom

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - Central Chevrolet on Memorial Avenue in West Springfield has quite a mess to clean up Friday afternoon.

A woman was taken to the hospital after the car she was in went through the dealership's showroom window. West Springfield Deputy Fire Chief Daniel Culver could not provide information on the extent of the patient's injuries.

No one inside the dealership was hurt in Friday's accident.

Employees who work inside say they heard a loud crash as the glass shattered and the blue Cavalier slammed into a wall.

It's actually not the first time this has happened. This accident comes just days after new windows had been installed because of another showroom crash. In that crash on June 22, two cars were damaged when a fish market box truck came crashing through the front of the dealership .

A West Springfield fire engine was actually hit by another car while firefighters were assisting at Central Chevrolet. Culver said that no one from the fire department was injured.

A third accident occurred earlier in the morning, before the car crashed into the dealership, according to Central Chevrolet Sales Consultant Robert Goudreau.

"There was one about 9 o'clock this morning and that one didn't make it all the way through, it went over the median and got stuck," he said.

The dealership's service manager told 22News that drivers sometimes lose control when they're driving too fast around the bend in the road next to the dealership, especially on rainy or snowy days when Memorial Avenue is slippery.