(Image: @dinosseattle)

There was a less terrible but still damaging incident of traffic violence along Olive Way last week.

Police have made no arrests and are looking for more information about the hit and run death on Olive Way across I-5 last Friday night.

But they took one person into custody after a car crashed into the Dino’s pizza shop at E Olive and Denny early that morning.

Dino’s posted a picture of the crash aftermath and reported being able to open for pies the next day.

According to East Precinct radio reports, police and Seattle Fire were called to the scene just before 3 AM Friday where a driver had smashed into the restaurant on the southwest corner of the busy intersection. A responding officer reported one person was taken into custody but provided no additional information about the arrest.

The intersection was also the scene of a crash into a building last year but that collision was intentional. The October smash and grab at Capitol Hill’s The Reef utilized a common tactic for pot shop break-ins — a group of thieves smashed a Kia into the front and burglarized the store.

The pot shop has since added sidewalk bollards to thwart any future rammings. Maybe Dino’s should do the same.

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