FALL RIVER, Mass. (WLNE) — A small business owner in Fall River is picking up the pieces after a car plowed through the fence outside her restaurant Monday night.

Faneek’s Coney Island co-owner Elizabeth Carpenter said it happened just after 5 p.m. — all caught on tape.

“I was just off on a nice little weekend getaway,” Carpenter said. “So I pulled in and the first thing that I saw was the fence down in the outdoor dining area.”

She said she went to check her surveillance cameras right away, which showed a car pulling slowly onto the sidewalk, not far from a pedestrian who tried to get the driver’s attention.

“At first I thought the car was pulling over because they knew who the person was that was walking,” Carpenter said.

Moments later, the car smashed through the fence into the gar

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