An unidentified driver of a vehicle smashed into the curbside seating area of a Franklin Street cafe on Thursday morning leaving a woman injured, according to witnesses.
A northbound Toyota crashed into the wooden planters surrounding Cafe Alula’s Franklin Street tables where a woman was working on her laptop just before noon on Thursday, according to Clinton Courtney, who was walking south on Franklin Street and witnessed the aftermath of the crash.
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