4 Injured After Car Jumps Curb on H Street in Northeast

Two people on the sidewalk on busy H Street NE were injured yesterday when a car left the roadway, jumped the curb and struck them, according to accounts from police and startled witnesses.

Two people from the car were also reported injured, and a building was damaged.

The incident was touched off about 12:45 p.m. when a car that was going east collided with a vehicle that was coming out of an H Street driveway, said Officer Kenny Bryson, a D.C. police spokesman. The eastbound car then mounted the sidewalk, police said.

Ron Allison, chef and co-owner of the Napa 1015 Restaurant and Lounge on H Street, said the car struck the pedestrians, the outer wall of his restaurant and the wall of a pharmacy.

"It was unbelievable, to see something come down the sidewalk like that, to see the force of it," Allison said.

"It pretty much shook the entire block," said Yvette Green, who owns Yvette's Hair & Nails.

None of the injuries was believed to be life-threatening.