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A woman driver had a miracle escape yesterday after she ploughed her Jaguar X-Type straight through the front window of her local Sainsbury's Photo: SWNS











By Agency

12:05PM BST 10 Sep 2015





A woman driver had a lucky escape after she ploughed her Jaguar car straight through the front window of a local supermarket.


Emergency services were called at 9.50am after the green saloon crashed into the Sainsbury's Local store in Mickleover, Derbyshire.


The Jaguar X-Type was completely embedded inside the shop with the front window and entrance collapsed around it.








"There was loads of smoke and the alarm started going off. It's unbelievable, just surreal."

Amanda Walker









Incredibly, the unnamed 61-year-old woman driver was checked over by paramedics at the scene but only suffered minor injuries.

Shoppers also miraculously escaped injury with one saying the collision sounded like "a bomb going off."

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Amanda Walker, who was inside the store at the time, said: "All of a sudden, the most almighty crash and it just sounded like a bomb had gone off or something like that.

"There was loads of smoke and the alarm started going off. It's unbelievable, just surreal."

Office worker Lee Holte, 20, added: "I was just popping by the shop to pick up my breakfast before work when I heard this almighty sound of smashing glass.

"I looked over and couldn't believe my eyes. There was a car inside the store.

"Luckily although being badly shaken she was OK. Maybe she was desperate to buy some groceries, she must have been in a rush for something."

A police cordon was set up around the Sainsburys yesterday morning and a hairdressers next door was also evacuated.

Derbyshire Fire and Rescue also called for structural engineers to attended to assess the damage to the store.

A spokesperson for Derbyshire Police said: "The driver of the car, a 61-year-old Derby woman, has been treated for minor injuries and didn't require hospital treatment.

"Emergency services attended the scene and structural engineers have assessed the building and deemed it safe."

 

You know there are about 60million of us? It's a bit like asking if you know a random USA person. Generally - no.

BTW if it's a typical news item many of the details will be wrong.

 

Press hyperbole - it's hardly a 'miracle escape' going through a glass and aluminium shop front!



Graham

 

Drove straight past the Disabled and 'Parents & Child' spaces and went straight for the 'Lazy B*****ds parking bay!

 

That must have been a bad day for the ladies in the middle of their perms.

 

Here's a quote from the "Daily Mail"

The drive-thru supermarket is one of several ideas being tried out by Sainsbury's at a 'concept store' in Manchester, which opens tomorrow.

The poor woman isn't a lousy driver, she was just lost and thought she was in Manchester! Where there footballers hanging about?

 

Nothing quite like drive-through supermarket service these days....

 

I bet her insurance company is gonna love her....


Dave

 

Daily Mail = one of UK's worst, least reliable, newspapers. Ignore.

 

It is good for a laugh.

 

This same thing happened to a store in a small shopping center we own. The car barreled over the cement parking strip, hopped over the curb, traversed the 10' sidewalk, and then went through the stone and glass facade of the store. Maybe she thought this was the shortcut to the Taco Bell drive thru in the other part of our center.

 

I saw several articles about this incident. Interesting the headlines all specified she drove a "Jaguar" through the window, not just a "car". Seems people love to see fine autos wrecked!

 

I know someone who did a similar thing here in Bury St Edmunds a couple of years ago. He drove into a Tesco Express. However, the automatic doors opened and he drove straight in without hitting anything or anyone! They have since installed bollards - made for a good new story though, especially as he had just started his year as Mayor: Mayor Terry Buckle drives his car into Tesco Express store in Moreton Hall - BBC News