Police say it is too early to know whether an 87-year-old woman car driver will face charges after mistakenly stepping on the accelerator instead of the brake and ploughing into an Auckland bread shop yesterday.
Two women were injured when the car crashed through the front window of the Baker's Delight at the Pakuranga Westfield shopping centre around 12.30pm.
The car narrowly missed a young child but hit a customer and an employee, Inspector Shawn Rutene, of the northern police communications centre, said.
One of the women suffered serious leg injuries and the other cuts to her head from flying glass.
The car driver was taken to Auckland's Middlemore Hospital suffering from shock.
Narash Soma, who works at a neighbouring store, said he heard a loud smash, followed by screaming shortly after lunchtime yesterday.
"I guess it looked more like a movie scene," he told The New Zealand Herald.
"There was broken glass everywhere, the counter was gone, a car parked right inside the store, bread all over the place."
Mr Soma said the two women who had been hurt inside the shop were quickly attended to by people passing by and those working at neighbouring shops.
Mr Rutene said inquiries were continuing into the accident.
