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Tennessee woman accused of DUI after crashing into Nashville doughnut shop

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee woman is accused of driving under the influence when she crashed her vehicle into a Nashville doughnut shop early Friday, authorities said.

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Sarah Flowers, 29, was charged with DUI by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department after she crashed into East Park Donuts & Coffee, WZTV reported. Flowers allegedly told police she had “several IPA beers” before driving her SUV into the building at around 3:39 a.m. CDT.

The first employee of the morning was scheduled to arrive at the shop at 4 a.m., according to the television station.

Police said that Flowers had a blood-alcohol-content level of .218 after she took a field sobriety test, WSMV-TV reported. The legal BAC limit in Tennessee is .08.

“I think we had some thick steel here at the front window that actually stopped the vehicle before she actually went in further,” Stevyn Gilmore of East Park Donuts & Coffee told WTVF.

On its Facebook page, the doughnut shop tried to look at the bright side.

“Well … our day may be fried, but like yeast, we will rise again,” the company’s Facebook post said.

On its Facebook page, the shop posted a large photograph of the SUV and the remnants of the crash with the warning “Donut Drink & Drive.”

Flowers was released from jail at about 8:45 a.m. CDT on Saturday, WSMV reported.

No one was hurt, The Tennessean reported.

Gilmore said this isn’t the first challenge East Park Donuts and Coffee has faced. The tornado that swept through East Nashville in March 2020 ripped off the shop’s roof and caused flooding and destroyed its sign, according to the newspaper.

“I just hope that you (Flowers) are OK, but everything else is here. Everything can be replaced just take care of yourself,” Gilmore told WTVF.