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WEST ALLIS, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Camp Karma in West Allis is temporarily closed after a car crashed into the building Monday afternoon.

The front of Camp Karma is boarded up after two cars crashed just after 1 p.m. Monday. One of them went into the front of the building. 

"They decided that my bar should be a drive-thru," owner Reb Hagmann said. "The minivan was into the bar."

People on scene told her the driver ran a red light before the crash. 

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"From what I was told then, the driver of the minivan was looking at her phone, trying to figure out what address she was delivering a package to," Hagmann said. 

Police said one injury was reported and the building inspector was called. Thankfully, no one was outside or inside the bar at the time. 

"Very, very lucky," Hagmann said. "We were thankfully, closed, otherwise multiple people would be dead."

The car took out Camp Karma's two front doors and a wall in the woman's bathroom. 

After three years at the corner of the intersection, Hagmann calls 71st and Becher "accident alley."

"People speed horribly in this neighborhood, don't pay attention, running red lights," she said. 

She sees crashes often and says a business across the street has also been hit before. 

"Hopefully this is a great incentive to finally solve the problem."

Hagmann says she's shared her concerns with the city. 

"I'm like, I will buy the stop signs if you would install them, cause they need to do something."

For now, she's talking to insurance and hoping some good karma is on the way. 

"Everything happens for a reason, but what the reason is on this one, yet to be determined."

We've reached out to the West Allis Police Department and to city leaders about the crash history and any plans to make changes, but we have not yet heard back. 

Hagmann says it appears the bar is structurally fine and she hopes to reopen as soon as she can get the door replaced. 

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