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Witnesses share accounts of vehicle crash inside Detroit Metro Airport

A car crash at DTW temporarily closed the Evans Terminal Friday morning.

Two witnesses to the May 29, 2026, crash at the Evans Terminal of Detroit Metro Airport. (WDIV)

Travelers at Detroit Metro Airport are still reeling after a man reportedly drove his vehicle through the doors of Evans Terminal at Detroit Metro Airport on Friday, causing delays.

The terminal was closed while emergency personnel responded to the scene and his since been reopened. The driver has also been detained.

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Witnesses at the airport described the scene as “scary,” including Sedeq Arshuhtpi, who works at the airport and told Local 4 he was standing 10 feet away when the crash occurred.

“We didn’t know what to do, 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," he said. “The doors slowed him down a little bit, and then after he got through from the doors, he went and sped off a little bit and then the other door stopped him.”

Another witness, Nikia Hubbard, says she was going through security when the man’s vehicle “barreled through the door.”

“It was unbelievable,” she said, “there was a lady in front of us who was really upset because it was so close to us…They just drove right past us. We were just thankful, thank god that we didn’t get hit because we were that close, we could have gotten hit.


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