Driver Hospitalized, Boutique in Ruins, Pickup Truck Smashes into Pasadena's Darielas Boutique Causing $10K Damage

The calm of a Pasadena night was shattered when a pickup truck veered off the road, crashing into Darielas Boutique with an impact caught on video surveillance. The incident occurred just before 10:30 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Preston Avenue and South Street, detailed in a report by KHOU 11 News. The store, despite the havoc wrought by the truck that ran off the road through a parking lot and directly into the retail space, astonishingly opened the following day, servicing several customers.

More information emerged from ABC13 which obtained footage showing the truck plowing into a parked car, jumping two curbs and finally crashing into Darielas Boutique at roughly 1:30 a.m. yesterday, the truck not only breached the store’s defenses but also disrupted the structural integrity of the building by knocking out a brick support beam. A man in the truck was taken to the hospital after the crash, although his condition remains unclear, and the police have not disclosed what led to the man's loss of control over the vehicle.

The business owner, amid the rubble of her livelihood faced with a scene of distress where half her inventory laid in ruins, could only think of resilience and rebirth even as she acknowledged the loss of $10,000 worth of clothing, hangers, and shelves as "If it has to come from our money, then if that means building it up and starting from scratch, if we have to do all of that to restart again, I will," she told ABC13. The day brought crews to tidy up the scene removing bricks that had scattered across the parking lot, a tireless effort to rectify the chaos brought upon by the event.

The shop, located next door to her parents' business which was luckily spared the destruction, became a site where the owner, Dariela Galvan, frequently worked into the late hours and just narrowly missed being present during the crash, "Thank God we weren't here when this happened because we could have been here," she expressed gratitude for the near-miss of what might have been an even graver disaster, according to ABC13.