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‘It looks worse than it was’: No injuries after car crashes into storefront in Burnaby

Burnaby Fire were on scene Thursday night to a car crash into a storefront Credit: Curtis Kreklau. Curtis Kreklau

The Burnaby Fire Department says no one was injured after a car crashed into a commercial building Thursday evening.

Assistant Fire Chief Stewart Colbourne said it happened around 6 p.m. in the area of North Road and Cameron Avenue.

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Colbourne said the car was travelling northbound when the driver began to turn left, then lost control and went onto the sidewalk.

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The car proceeded over the retaining wall and into a vacant storefront’s window.

Colbourne said there were two occupants inside the car, but both were uninjured.

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“It looks worse than it was,” he said, adding the building is still safe and just needs to be boarded up.

City engineers are expected to be on scene Friday morning.

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