Another car plows into Shelburne Post Office

Shelburne police chief Mike Thomas was just stepping out of the station Monday afternoon when he got an all-too-familiar call: Someone crashed into the post office, the second time since December.

At approximately 2:38 p.m., officers from the Shelburne Police Department responded to the report of a car crashing into post office building.

Shelburne fire and rescue crews also responded to help the driver and inspect for structural damage to the building.

When officers arrived, they found a 2012 Audi Q5 at rest on the sidewalk in front of the post office’s north entrance. The vehicle crashed through the exterior wall, traveled through an indoor hallway that contained post office boxes and crashed into a wall, causing significant damage to the building.

After the collision, the driver backed the vehicle out of the building and stopped on the sidewalk.

“It was the same scenario as last time,” Thomas said. “They thought they were hitting the brakes, but hit the gas, and when they hit the building, they hit the gas some more still thinking that it was brakes. There was extensive damage, more damage than last time.”

He said that renovations resulting from that last crash in December were still being completed.

“It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve been able to pick up mail, but they weren’t done the last time I went over,” he said.

The driver, Laura Krawitt, 89, of Shelburne, was uninjured and no employees were injured during the crash.

The post office closed for business after the incident.