Car crashes through Bagel Boss

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David Sparrow was celebrating his daughter's middle school graduation at Bagel Boss of Hewlett at 11:30 a.m. on June 24, when a black Mercedes careened through the glass front of the store, almost directly to where his daughter, Emily, 14, was sitting.

His daughter, who graduated from Woodmere Middle School that morning, climbed over the table to escape the vehicle's path as it crashed into the store's counter.

She suffered only minor injuries and was taken to South Nassau Hospital.

"It was purely God's grace," said Sparrow an hour after the accident. "I was helpless to do anything."

Sparrow says the driver was an elderly man and estimated that he plowed into the restaurant, filled with a lunch-time crowd, between 25-30 miles per hour. Sparrow's wife and daughter Emily, 11, were also unharmed, though he said another female diner was taken away in an ambulance.

Nassau County's Fourth Police Precinct did not have further information to release, as of press time. The condition of the driver is unknown.

Laura Kornblum, a Woodmere resident who frequents the restaurant often, drove by the scene after the accident.

"It's terrifying," she said. "There's usually a big line. Thank God no one was [seriously] hurt."