Car crashes into Wattle Park restaurant, injuring four people

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Four people have been injured - including one man seriously - after a car careered into a restaurant in Adelaide's east. Police are speaking with the driver about the incident... which damaged the front of the business and left staff and witnesses shaken.

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00:00 "There's a lot of chaos around initially but we're able to quickly get in and start assessing

00:06 members of the public that were injured and establish a bit of a priorities list."

00:11 Emergency services were called to Europe Pizza and Restaurant at the Wattle Park shops in

00:16 Adelaide's east when a car crashed into diners and the glass frontage just before 8 o'clock.

00:22 At least four people were hurt including a seven-year-old boy.

00:27 A 54-year-old Campbelltown man was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening

00:32 injuries.

00:33 Witnesses described the shocking incident.

00:36 "She came in pretty quick and then there's a gap and she comes through the gap and there's

00:41 a big table of a family outside and she hits the family and goes into the restaurant.

00:47 The staff were pretty shocked but we took her and we helped as much as we could and

00:52 as soon as I saw her I went and called triple zero and got help."

00:57 The driver, a 42-year-old woman from Roslyn Park, wasn't hurt.

01:01 "It's a bit of an overwhelming scene so people were a little bit shocked but we were able

01:07 to talk to the members of the public that were helping out and just make sure that they

01:10 were ok."

01:11 Locals assessing the damage this morning.

01:14 "Very lucky that nobody was killed.

01:19 As a community we really do wish them a very speedy recovery and our thoughts and prayers

01:23 are with them."

01:24 The driver is assisting police with their inquiries.

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