Unsung hero stepped up after car crashed into a Columbia Falls store
November 12, 2020, a night many Columbia Falls residents will never forgot as a car smashed through the glass entrance doors and into the Super One grocery store, leaving a trail of destruction and chaos behind.
By:
Sean Wells
and last updated 2021-05-13 18:22:04-04
COLUMBIA FALLS â November 12, 2020, is a night many Columbia Falls residents will never forget after a car smashed through the glass entrance doors into the Super 1 grocery store, leaving a trail of destruction and chaos behind.
Erin Shappell, the night manager on duty, suddenly found herself in charge of a dangerous and confusing situation with panicked customers trying to dodge the runaway driver. She recalled, âIt still baffles me, it was God's hand all over it, I mean thereâs no other way to explain it, people should have been hurt, people couldâve easily been killed."