Car ploughs into Heavenleigh Cupcakes shop in Gympie

Part of the old Mt Pleasant corner store which for several years has housed cake store and cafe Heavenleigh Cupcakes has collapsed after a ute ploughed into the building, coming to rest in the kitchen. VIDEO, PHOTOS, DETAILS HERE.

A car has ploughed through the wall of popular Gympie cake store and cafe, Heavenleigh Cupcakes, coming to rest inside the kitchen, where the owner Krystle Porter was working at the time.

Four customers were waiting on the pavement out front of the store when the incident occurred, and an employee was inside the store. Miraculously, nobody was hit.

A man aged in his 70s who may have had a medical episode, was initially trapped in the vehicle - a silver ute - but he was cut out by emergency crews and taken by ambulance to Gympie Hospital with non life threatening injuries.

Ms Porter told The Gympie Times she was working in the kitchen when the ute exploded through the wall, coming to rest centimetres from her, though she was hit by a “flying cabinet” containing $1000 worth of groceries.

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There was no warning. The car was coming up the hill from the direction of Normanby Bridge on Hughes Terrace and suddenly veered into the store and through the wall.

“I thought ‘It’s going to hit me’,” Ms Porter said.

The store, which was for many years the Mt Pleasant corner store, is located sits on the corner of Hughes Terrace and Kidgell Street.

More information as it comes to hand.