CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Four people sustained minor injuries when a car crashed into the Cascade Township Meijer Thursday morning.
It happened around 9:30 a.m. at supermarket on 28th Street near I-96 in Cascade Township. The Kent County Sheriff’s Office shared a photo showing a black sedan fully inside the building near the customer service desk, surrounded by debris.
Deputies said the crash appears to have been the result of the driver, a 29-year-old Grand Rapids man, suffering a “medical episode.”
A car crashed into the Meijer on 28th Street in Cascade Township on Dec. 5, 2024. (Courtesy Kent County Sheriff’s Office) 
Crews work to remove a car from the Cascade Township Meijer following a crash on Dec. 5, 2024. 
Crews work to remove a car from the Cascade Township Meijer following a crash on Dec. 5, 2024. 
Crews work to remove a car from the Cascade Township Meijer following a crash on Dec. 5, 2024. 
Crews work to remove a car from the Cascade Township Meijer following a crash on Dec. 5, 2024.
Customer Josh Byler was near the store’s deli when the crash happened. He didn’t see it, but he heard it.
“It was very loud,” he said. “There were definitely screams. There was a woman sitting on the bench off to the side. I don’t know if she ended up being injured, but she was shaken up for sure.”
The part of the building that the Subaru Legacy crashed through has large windows. It appears to have narrowly missed a concrete column. Byler described a chaotic scene after the wreck.
“The car was all the way inside the building. The hood was pulled up and it was smoking and steaming and stuff,” he described.
He said it was “freak thing.”
“It actually takes a second to register: ‘Hey, there’s a car in the store,'” he said.
A wrecker and firefighters removed the car from the building later Thursday morning.
