A 77-year-old Greek Australian woman allegedly caused a nearly fatal accident last Wednesday, when her car ploughed into a shopfront in Adelaide’s north.
According to various sources the elderly woman was attempting to park her white car outside the local Foodland supermarket in Hove, when she accelerated instead of breaking.
Before slamming into the store’s shopfront, her car mounted the footpath, nicked the side of a man’s leg who at the same time was walking on the footpath outside the grocery store.
According to witnesses and CCTV footage, the accident could have been fatal for the man if he had left his car a second or a moment later.
“It could have been terrible, she could have killed the poor fellow,” said one of the witnesses on 9News.
The impact startled customers inside the Foodland and others in the car park as a massive bang sounded and glass scattered across the ground.
Witnesses said that the car did not make it all the way into the store because the trolley barrier stopped it.
The elderly driver, shaken by the event was crying and screaming unable to process what had just happened.
“She is a beautiful mother and grandmother and a very responsible citizen. She would never hurt a fly, so just the thought that she could have caused pain or suffering or even worse, the death of another human being would be something she would have never been able to live with,” her friend told Neos Kosmos.
The 77-year-old woman was taken to the Flinders Medical Centre with minor injuries.
Customers and locals are now calling for more protective bollards to be installed to prevent something like this from happening again