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Elderly driver crashes into convenience store in Shiga; none injured

An elderly female driver crashed into a convenience store in Shiga Prefecture after mistaking the accelerator for the brakes (the Sankei Shimbun)
An elderly female driver crashed into a convenience store in Shiga Prefecture after mistaking the accelerator for the brakes (the Sankei Shimbun via the Shiga Prefectural Police)

SHIGA (TR) – A 62-year-old female driver crashed into a convenience store in Omihachiman City after mistaking the accelerator for the brakes, police said on Monday.

Police said the car smashed through the glass front of a Lawson outlet with the majority of the vehicle ending up inside the store, the Sankei Shimbun reports (Dec. 19).

The woman and store staff were uninjured in the crash, police said.

The woman was quoted as telling police she was trying to park when she “mistook the  accelerator for the brakes.”