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An SUV crashed into a restaurant and injured two food influencers while they were filming a review on Saturday.
On Aug. 18, NinaUnrated and Patrick Blackwood posted a video showing the stunning moment at Cuvee’s Culinary Creations in Houston, Texas, as well as its aftermath.
In the video, the pair learn about their dishes served by restaurant owner and chef Ivory Watkins before he walks away from the table. As they take a bite of their sandwiches, the crash sends shards of glass and other debris flying toward Blackwood, who was closest to the window, and NinaUnrated, who falls out of the booth.
“There were maybe four to six guests here because we were preparing for a private party,” Watkins tells TODAY.com. “The lady that ran through the window was a part of the private party.”
A spokesperson for Harris County Sheriff’s Office confirms that deputies were dispatched to the restaurant on Aug. 16 at about 4:41 p.m. when the “female driver of the vehicle (Black SUV) advised that she thought she [placed] the vehicle in park and “upon releasing her foot off the brake, the vehicle rolled into the business, striking the building, and breaking the glass.”
“There were two people inside the business,” the spokesperson continued, adding that “one male and one female sitting inside in a booth” were injured and “transported to a local area hospital.”
“Patrick got most of the impact and he pushed me out of the way,” NinaUnrated, who prefers to go by her username, tells TODAY.com. “It happened so fast, I think we’re just lucky to be alive, to be honest.”
In a series of follow-up posts, NinaUnrated shows lacerations on her face and hands, and Blackwood appears to have a long laceration on his jaw, as well as stitches and staples closing wounds on other parts of his body.
“I want to break down and cry, and I just can’t,” NinaUnrated says in the video. “I’m trying to, like, not freak out. I’m like, ‘Just smile.’”
“I don’t know what it is. I was not expecting this bulls— right here, but, uh, I’m glad I’m alive,” Blackwood says in the video. “I just want to be around my pets later in my own home. Have me some ice cream.”
Now, the pair say they are taking a short break from filming videos while they recover.
“I’m losing sleep over replaying Patrick Blackwood’s face in my head and the glass shattering,” NinaUnrated says. “I wake up every 30 to 45 minutes with my heart racing for the past few nights. I haven’t slept well.”
Watkins says his employees cleaned up and opened the restaurant the day after the accident, and NinaUnrated and Blackwood came back that day to eat again.
“Here’s what you have to understand … I was standing in front of them. I’m six feet tall. When the car came through the window, all of that glass would have hit me dead smack in my face,” Watkins says.
While they are still shaken, they say they are so thankful to be alive.
“Tomorrow’s never promised, but you don’t understand the depth of those words until you experience something like this,” says NinaUnrated. “We could have been handicapped, we could have been blind, we could have been dead, we could have been killed. And there is no repeating this. So for me … live your life right now.”
Joseph Lamour is the food reporter at TODAY.com and is based in Washington D.C.
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