9:16am Tuesday 16th March 2010
SHOPPERS looked on in shock as a runaway car rolled down a street in York and crashed into a shop.
This was the scene after the silver Toyota Yaris rolled down Fossgate. It missed passing pedestrians and other cars, but hit the front of Macdonald’s furniture store.
Police at the scene said they thought the driver had left the handbrake off.
Martyn Macdonald, director of the shop, said: “I saw the car come on to the pavement and thought: ‘Crikey – that’s going quickly’.
“Then there was a bang and it hit a pillar. I went outside and there was nobody in the car. It looks like they left the handbrake off.” The incident occurred at about 12.45pm yesterday.
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