Employee was 10 feet away when car crashed into DTW terminal. Here’s what he saw

ROMULUS, Mich. – An employee who was 10 feet away when a car crashed into Detroit Metro Airport described what happened on Friday morning.

Sedeq Arshuhtpi works at DTW and said he was about 10 feet away when a driver crashed into the Evans Terminal around 10 a.m. Friday, May 29, 2026.

“He drove from all the way over here, the middle, and came in from door four, and drove through, broke the glass and everything,” Arshuhtpi said.

The Evans Terminal was shut down after the crash, but it reopened before 11 a.m. Friday.

A person was detained by police.

“It was scary, man, like, we didn’t know what to do,” Arshuhtpi said. “We don’t know what’s inside that car. There’s a lot of people around. There could be a threat, so everybody was nervous. We didn’t know what was going on.”

Arshuhtpi said the doors slowed the driver down a little bit, but after he got through them, he “went and sped off a little bit and then the other door stopped him.”

Witness shares story from before crash

Another witness at the scene told Local 4 that a person in a black car had driven up onto the sidewalk to avoid the cement barriers.

A woman fell and hurt her knee, and the driver told her to get out of the way, the witness told Local 4.

UPDATE: What witness saw as driver crashed into Evans Terminal

“As he pulled in, (he) just kept revving his engine,” the witness said.

A picture from that witness showed how far the car got into the terminal.

Here are some picture showing the person, who was wearing a white shirt, jean shorts, and a sleeveless jean jacket.

January crash at McNamara Terminal

This crash comes about four months after a car was driven into the McNamara Terminal at DTW.

On Jan. 23, 2026, a man was driving a black Mercedes-Benz in the far-left lane near the McNamara Terminal before making a sharp right turn, cutting between two cars, and driving straight through the terminal, taking out metal bollards.

He got out of the car, yelling incoherently before being taken into custody.

New barriers were installed outside the McNamara Terminal following that crash.