Dollar General Employee Injured After Elderly Driver Crashes Into Ohio Storefront

A parking mistake by an 80-year-old woman sent a caged rack of propane tanks crashing into a Dollar General in Riverside, Ohio on Thursday, injuring an employee and damaging the storefront.

The crash was reported before 6 p.m. at the store located at 2300 Valley Pike. According to a crash report, the driver pressed the gas pedal instead of the brakes while attempting to park, driving her vehicle into a cage containing multiple propane tanks positioned outside the building. The force of the collision pushed the cage into the store, injuring an employee inside.

The employee was taken to the hospital with a leg injury. The front north-facing wall and glass of the store sustained damage in the crash.

The driver was cited for failure to control.

The incident raises familiar concerns for Dollar General workers, particularly those in stores where exterior merchandise displays sit close to parking areas. Propane cage stations are a standard feature at many Dollar General locations, typically positioned near the entrance, and the configuration can put them directly in the path of errant vehicles. Whether the propane tanks posed any secondary hazard at the Riverside location was not addressed in the crash report details.

The name of the injured employee has not been released, and no Dollar General corporate statement has been issued. The name of the driver also was not made public.