"It sounded like an explosion," said one witness who heard a pickup crash into the Bombay Sitar restaurant on Fulton Drive NW shortly after noon Wednesday.

JACKSON TWP. The lunch hour at Bombay Sitar restaurant was interrupted Wednesday afternoon when a pickup plowed through a wall of the eatery, sending at least three people to area hospitals.

Two people in the truck and one person in the restaurant on Fulton Drive NW were injured.

Rescue crews were dispatched to the location.

Jackson Township Fire Chief Tracy Hogue said utilities to the building were shut off, and local health department officials were called.

"It sounded like an explosion," Julie Baker, a cashier at Angello's, a carry-out restaurant next door to Bombay Sitar, said of the crash. She said another Angello's employee saw the truck speed by the business, and seconds later heard the crash.

The restaurant, at 5111 Fulton Drive NW, specializes in Indian cuisine. It opens for lunch at 11 a.m., according to its website. The crash occurred shortly after noon.

Hogue said the truck hit the side of the building where the restrooms are located and continued through the lobby area up to the front counter.

The front of the restaurant was marked with yellow police tape. There is a hole on the side of the building with damage throughout. The truck was sitting in the middle of the restaurant while police and firefighters worked the scene.