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Driver, 103, Slams Car Into Bergen Starbucks
HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A 103-year-old driver shifted his car into drive instead of reverse Friday and slammed it into a Hackensack Starbucks.
The city man, who turns 104 in just weeks, wasn't injured, authorities said.
The front of the Essex Street coffee shop sustained broken windows and other damage, however, after the 2017 four-door Ford sedan rammed into it at 1:40 p.m.
"He accidentally put his car in drive instead of reverse and it went over the park stop," Capt. Francesco Aquila, the officer in charge of the department, told Daily Voice. "Then he panicked and hit the gas…
