A car punched straight through the front window of Vinny's Original Brooklyn Bagels in Texas Township on Friday morning, leaving a Honda lodged most of the way inside the dining room and the shop's interior in disarray. The crash happened at 1114 Texas Palmyra Highway in Honesdale, and photos that circulated online afterward showed the vehicle resting amid shattered glass where customers would normally be grabbing their morning coffee and bagels.
According to Centre Daily Times, the crash left general disarray inside the shop, with the Honda having broken clean through a picture window. Mark Eifert, one of the owners of The Alpine, which owns the Route 6 shopping plaza where Vinny's is located, said that as far as he was aware, no one was hurt in the crash, Yahoo News reports.
Cleanup Got Underway Quickly
A tow truck was brought in to remove the car from the scene, and the shop's window was later boarded up, per the same account. Vinny's Original Brooklyn Bagels sits along Route 6 in the shopping plaza Eifert's company owns, a detail that places the shop squarely in a stretch of Honesdale-area businesses now contending with two separate vehicle-into-storefront incidents within roughly a week of each other.
The circumstances of the crash, including what caused the driver to lose control, were not addressed in the available reporting.
A Second Crash Nearby Just Days Earlier
The Honesdale bagel shop crash follows a similar incident just days before, when a vehicle struck Belmont Café at 249 Belmont Street in Waymart on October 31. No one was hurt in that crash either, according to a post on the café's Facebook page cited in the same report, and the café was not open at the time.
A separate report on a vehicle crashing into a building in Waymart described damage to the structure, the closure of the Belmont Cafe, and the evacuation of two apartments, with no injuries reported. That account noted the road was closed for about two hours before reopening, and that residents could not return until a structural engineer inspected the building.
