Witness: Driver went straight at sushi bar

MAPLE RIDGE, British Columbia, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- A man standing near a Canadian restaurant rammed by a truck in a deadly crash said the driver drove at the restaurant from 300 feet away without hesitation.

Charlie Nelson said he works at a wine store in the same strip mall in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, as Halu Sushi, Canwest News Service reported. He was waiting for his wife Thursday no more than 30 feet from the restaurant.

Two women who were eating at the restaurant were killed. The driver was in custody but had not been formally charged.

Nelson said the truck entered the mall parking lot and then the driver positioned it in a direct line with the restaurant and stopped briefly.

"He revved the engine and then gunned it for the sushi place," Nelson said.

Dawn Neilson, who owns Once Upon A Vine, the store where Nelson works, said she was inside and did not see the crash. But she said she heard nothing to suggest that the truck braked.

Police said they had found nothing to suggest the driver knew either of his victims or that they knew each other.