Watch: Car Rams Brooklyn Synagogue During Holy Celebration

The crash came in the middle of one of the most important nights on the Chabad calendar, startling thousands of worshippers gathered in Brooklyn and leaving a tight-knit religious community shaken and searching for answers.

According to the New York Post, police say a man drove a gray Honda sedan with New Jersey plates into a side entrance of the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights on Wednesday night, repeatedly slamming the vehicle into the building before exiting and confronting stunned bystanders.

The NYPD confirmed officers responded to the 🕍Synagogue on Eastern Parkway around 8:45 p.m. for what was initially reported as a “motor vehicle collision.”

Video circulating on social media shows the sedan backing up and plowing into the doors of a sloped driveway at least four times, knocking the doors off their hinges as people nearby scramble to get out of the way.

After the final impact, the driver steps out of the car and erupts at witnesses who had gathered nearby.

“I dunno, it slipped! It slipped, you f–king a–hole!” the man can be heard yelling at a Jewish man while gesturing angrily toward the vehicle.

Bystanders quickly pointed him out to police, and he was taken into custody without further incident, according to authorities and video from the scene.

Sources said the driver told officers he experienced some type of mechanical failure and did not make terroristic statements after his arrest. The NYPD has not announced a motive and said the investigation remains ongoing.