ELKINS — Police are still searching for the person who drove into the entrance doors of the Elkins Kroger grocery store Monday afternoon.

The Elkins Police Department is still investigating the incident. At approximately 1:40 p.m. Monday, police were dispatched to the store after a call came in to 911 reporting that a pick-up truck had apparently driven through the entrance of the store.

The vehicle, which Elkins City Police Chief Travis Bennett confirmed Tuesday was actually a car and not a truck, collided with the glass doors at the front of the building and then drove away, police said. Troopers with the Elkins Detachment of the West Virginia State Police eventually found the vehicle on Georgetown Road Monday.

“We ended up finding the vehicle later and we are still investigating it,” Bennett told The Inter-Mountain Tuesday afternoon. “We can’t put who was actually driving in the vehicle because they were outside the vehicle when the vehicle was located.”

The police chief noted the doors to the grocery store sustained “significant” damage.

“The damage is pretty significant and they’re going to have to have the doors and frame replaced,” Bennett said. “I don’t have any number on how much all of that may cost.”

With a brick barrier located next to the entrance doors, Bennett said he was surprised the vehicle made it to the doorway.

“To be honest, I don’t know how anything can get through there without hitting that,” he said. “There’s definitely not a lot of room there, especially for a vehicle.”

Elkins resident Bobbi Trimboli was inside the store when the vehicle struck the front doors. She said it was “a miracle” that no one was injured.

“I was at the check out and all of a sudden I just heard a big boom,” Trimboli told The Inter-Mountain. “Luckily nobody was hurt. I did see an older lady when I was leaving who looked like something was wrong. When I asked her if she was alright, she was visibly shaken and told me that the vehicle just missed her by inches.”

The Elkins Fire Department and Randolph County Emergency Squad responded to the scene and offered help to some of the stunned customers and staff.

Both of the doors and the entire metal door frame around each were damaged during the

accident.