[kellyhound]

A woman who was injured when a man trying to park his SUV accelerated and crashed into an outdoor dining area in Northern California has died, authorities said. The woman died Monday in a hospital.

A law enforcement source said police pronounced the woman dead after determining on Monday that her brain activity had ceased.

The woman and seven others were taken to the hospital after the crash Sunday at a parking lot of the Grand Century Mall in San Jose.

The conditions of the other seven injured people were not immediately known.

Officers initially said the 69-year-old driver who was behind the wheel of his 2000 Toyota 4Runner may have been in medical distress prior to the crash.

Surveillance footage shows the SUV accelerating as it jumps over a sidewalk.

It then crosses four lanes and goes over another sidewalk. Eventually, it plowed into a parking lot that was converted into an outdoor dining area.

Some 20 people were seated at the area that was serviced by the Dynasty Chinese seafood restaurant.

A San Jose city official told that Dynasty did not apply for or obtain a permit to operate an outdoor dining facility in the parking lot of the mall.

San Jose, like most other major cities, has permitted restaurants and bars to cater to customers outdoors so that they can remain in business while government restrictions ban eating indoors during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eateries in the San Jose area that want to serve customers outdoors need to apply online.

Doing so would not only have allowed city officials to regulate the process, but it also would have granted the restaurant free metal railings and concrete barriers that would have been put in the parking lot.

Elisabeth Handler, a spokesperson for San Jose's economic development office, was careful to point out that it is 'not to say that a registration would have prevented someone from driving into people,' but that 'it's definitely a heads up that we need to look at this more closely and there’s meeting currently going on about it.'

[wujuan]

covid'll get you one way or the other.

[alphawolf15]

Who ordered the Toyota!?