The Farmstead Ice Cream Truck in Burlington is temporarily closed after police say an impaired driver crashed into it.
“It was definitely disheartening to see everything that happened. We literally just paid off the truck.” said Aubri Tonn, the co-owner of Tonn’s Marketplace.
State police say the crash happened on Milford Road just after midnight on Monday. The arrest warrant says the driver was 27-years-old. He told emergency medical services he was not hurt, and refused to go to the hospital. The driver was arrested for driving under the influence.
According to UConn’s State Crash Data Repository, it shows since the start of the year, there have been over 1600 crashes where people were driving under the influence.
“I wasn’t here, but from the [surveillance] video it looks like he came in southbound, came down over here. We believe he was coming at a high rate of speed, and he crashed over here. He did take out several of our bollards in the process, and then the back of the car actually landed over here.” said Jordan Tonn, also the co-owner of Tonn’s Marketplace.
The Tonn family opened the Marketplace seven years ago, with the latest addition of the ice cream truck in 2022.
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