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Update: The driver of the car was not taken to the hospital. She refused treatment and was arrested; charges are pending.

Two young women were seriously injured tonight when a car jumped the curb and crashed into Keren Restaurant near 18th Street and Florida Avenue NW in Adams Morgan.

Around 8:30 p.m. the driver of a white Dodge Caliber lost control of her car and slammed into the restaurant, destroying the entire storefront. Two women in their twenties who were struck were taken to the hospital, one in critical condition and the other in serious condition, according to D.C. fire department spokesman Pete Piringer. The women may have been on the sidewalk or on the pedestrian island at the center of the intersection when the crash occurred. The driver did not appear to have life-threatening injuries.

A crowd of emergency responders and Adams Morgan residents had converged on the typically bustling area this evening to survey the damage. The car remained partly inside the store and it wasn't even clear from the crash scene which way the driver had been heading -- south on 18th Street or east on Florida Ave. Police are trying to determine whether the driver had been speeding.

"It was a lot of squealing tires, wheels hitting the curb, glass flying -- it wasn't a pretty scene," said Neil Pisdoren, a witness to the crash. "I can't figure out how she did it even, taking out an entire restaurant and two people."

No one was inside Keren Restaurant at the time of the crash.

See video of the scene here. We'll update as we learn more.