Woman drives into shop
Startled shoppers scattered as a Mini with a frightened woman at the wheel crashed through the doors of a Merivale supermarket yesterday afternoon. Fortunately, the steel frames of the self-opening doors slowed the vehicle enough to protect the shoppers and display stands inside the building, according to a staff member of the Supervalue supermarket. The driver who was shocked but unhurt, later told onlookers that she
had gone to put her foot on the brake but had pushed the accelerator pedal instead. That put an end to her careful manoeuvring in the supermarket's car-park and left her car wedged three-quarters of the way through the glass doors. “It was lucky no-one was going in or out at the time,” said the staff member. “I have heard of cars running off roads and hit ting shops but going out of control in a car-park is a different story."
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Press, 23 June 1978, Page 1
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