“I just hope the families are doing OK, the victims are doing OK,” she said. “I hope everything gets figured out with the driver.”

Klein said the SUV was eastbound on West Maple when it veered to the right, went off the road, crossed a grassy area and another road before entering the parking lot where it smashed into the Crane Coffee shop.

The 312-square-foot building is a total loss, police said.

No tire marks indicating braking were evident outside the building.

Yestingsmeier worked at a restaurant in the same shopping center. He was probably on his way to his shift at Bruno’s Pasta at the time, said Charlie Yin, an owner of the group that operates the restaurant.

Late Tuesday afternoon, after the police had left and the SUV had been pulled from the wreckage, chunks of brick, mortar and insulation had been pushed back on to the island where the building sits.

In the parking lot, Mary McElwain, 51, fresh off her shift as a medical assistant, sat in her car and gazed at the wreckage, sad and shocked.

She swings by every other day or so, for a large hazelnut white mocha. She was not aware of the crash until she saw the wreckage.