Crime & Safety

Car's Plunge Into Dance Studio Injures Four Teen Girls and Two Women

Wakefield Police officials said that the victims' injuries are non-life-threatening.

One driver has been cited and six people were injured when a car plunged through the front of Dance Track Studio.

Police are investigating why the operator, a 55-year-old woman, drove through the studio at 1117 Main St. around 7 p.m. on Thursday.

Cashiers at the store next door said that they were there when it happened and compared it to an earthquake, making the building shake. 

Police on the scene said  that a mother and two girls were injured during the incident and were sent to an area hospital. A later press release clarified that a total of six people — four teenage girls and two women — were being treated for what police called "non life-threatening injuries."

The driver will be charged with operating negligently so as to endanger. Wakefield Police and the State Police Accident Reconstruction Team continue to investigate.

Later today we'll post video from the incident.  

[Editor's note: The headline and text has been revised to reflect the latest statements from Wakefield Police.]


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