The car rests against the shattered shopfront.
By Eve Noon

SHOPPERS WERE lucky to escape unhurt when a car careered off the road and crashed into the front of a local supermarket in Dundee last night.The one-car accident happened at the Somerfield store on Brook Street shortly after 6 pm.John Gibson, duty manager at the supermarket, was just yards away from where the vehicle ploughed into the building.“I was at one of the front stands inside the store and I heard the car’s exhaust mounting the pavement before I saw the car heading towards the front of the store,” he said.“There were three other staff members also working in the shop at the time and there were a lot of kids about on the pavement because they had just left the shop.”The front door glass panel was smashed and part of the front wall was also damaged.The shop was closed for the evening and the management was unsure when it would be able to open again until they had received the structural engineer’s report. A neighboring resident spoke about his fears at the number of accidents that were happening on the road. Peter Minejko said, “I had on my head phones but I could hear the thump of the car hitting the shop.“Since the supermarket opened, the road is busier and there have already been a few accidents here with people pulling out or driving too fast.”Police confirmed the male driver was taken to the city’s Ninewells Hospital for assessment but there were no other casualties. Their investigation into the circumstances is continuing, and they reported that two vehicles have been taken away for further inquiries.

Article and picture taken from The Courier, Dundee, Scotland

Council veteran Cal Hinton on the mend after freak restaurant crash
By Elaine Larsen and Jane Northrop STAFF WRITERS
Article Launched: 02/13/2008 10:43:14 AM PST
Pacifica Tribune

     Some say it seems nothing short of a miracle that no one was killed -- and veteran Council member Cal Hinton suffered only a broken leg -- when the driver of an SUV knocked him down on the sidewalk before plowing headlong into the Camelot Fish & Chips restaurant on West Manor Drive.
Hinton, 81, still getting around with a walker after recent hip replacement surgery, was struck at about 4:20 p.m. a week ago Wednesday afternoon, shattering his upper femur thigh bone -- on the same side as his hip replacement.
      "We heard a loud crash and saw the vehicle coming into the restaurant, almost like it was slow motion," said Karen Wheatley, restaurant owner.
      Fortunately, there were only three diners inside at the time -- a woman and her daughter, and a man, all seated on the right side of the building, opposite where the SUV landed, she said.
      "The driver was shouting 'the brakes aren't working; I couldn't stop,'" Wheatley said. "The mother and daughter jumped out of their seats, all shaken. An hour earlier we had a full house. This could have been much worse."
      Witnesses told police a gold Dodge Durango had just left the Manor Center parking lot when it crashed into Camelot, a Pacifica institution. When police arrived, Hinton was conscious but in a "lot of pain," said Pacifica Police Cpt. Dave Bertini. "We thought of all the people to get hit -- he had just had hip replacement surgery a few weeks ago."
      Hinton was taken to San Francisco General Hospital where he underwent major surgery where doctors repaired his shattered leg with screws and plates, said his wife, Marilyn Hinton. Hinton has since been transferred to Kaiser where he will stay for awhile before going into a rehabilitation facility. "It won't be too much longer before I have him home," Marilyn Hinton said.

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