North Kincumber Physiotherapy: Elderly driver ploughed 10m into clinic

Incredibly an elderly driver, staff and patients at North Kincumber Physiotherapy escaped injury when a car ploughed through the front doors and 10m into the clinic.

Police are investigating whether a man, aged in his 70s, may have hit the accelerator instead of the brake when he ploughed into North Kincumber Physiotherapy showering people inside with glass and debris.

But incredibly no one was injured.

Emergency services were called to the clinic on Avoca Drive at 10.50am on Tuesday following reports of a car entering a building.

The car went through reception and knocked down a wall into one of the treatment rooms. Picture: NewsLocal

The small sedan mounted the gutter of the car park and crashed through the large glass doors of the clinic, through the reception and waiting area before knocking down a wall into a treatment room 10m inside the building.

Two crews of paramedics along with Kincumber Fire & Rescue and several police attended.

Miraculously about four staff and a number of patients inside the clinic were not injured.

The male driver also escaped injury and was assessed by paramedics at the scene but did not require transport to hospital.

Incredibly no one was seriously injured in the collision. Picture: NewsLocal

A Fire & Rescue NSW spokesman said crews assessed the structural integrity of the building before deeming it safe, while a tow truck was able to drag the small silver sedan out.

It is understood the man was a patient at the clinic but staff declined to comment for privacy reasons.

A spokeswoman for the small shopping centre’s body corporate said the owners would consider installing bollards to prevent a similar accident in the future.

“Understandably a lot of people were shaken up,” she said.

The aftermath. Picture: supplied