PORT ANGELES — The term “freak accident” covers it — just barely.
Juana Argyropoulos was chatting with two of her regular customers in the Fairmount Italian Restaurant on Friday evening when she looked out the window and saw a Lincoln Town Car hurtling toward the building.
Backward.
Argyropoulos remembers standing and putting out her arms to try to pull 19-year-old Elisabeth Nicole Hagerman to safety.
The next thing she remembers is struggling to get up from the tables and chairs onto which she’d been thrown in the center of the dining room.
Hagerman and her mother, Huberta Meadows, were thrown even farther — about 25 feet — from the glass and brick wall the Town Car had demolished.
The three women, all of Port Angeles, were the only people in the dining room when the crash occurred at about 7:30 p.m.
