Miracle escape for staff, customers as driver, 69, ploughs into Goolwa’s Live N Let Pie bakery

A woman is lucky to be alive after a car smashed into the popular Goolwa bakery this morning.

Staff and customers got an unexpected shock on Sunday morning after a car ploughed through the front of a popular bakery at Goolwa.

Emergency services rushed to Live ‘N’ Let Pie on Hutchinson St at Goolwa at about 11am, after reports that a car had veered off the road and slammed into the building.

Several people were inside the bakery at the time, including a 62-year-old female customer who was injured in the crash, SA Police said.

A car crashed through the front of Live N Let Pie on Sunday morning. Picture: Supplied

A car crashed through the front of Live N Let Pie on Sunday morning. Picture: Supplied

She was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries, along with the 69-year-old local driver of the car who did not appear to be injured, but was taken as a precaution.

State Emergency Service crews attended the scene and helped to shore up the structure, while the car was towed and removed from the scene.

Police are continuing to investigate the circumstances that led up to the crash.

Originally published as Miracle escape for staff, customers as driver, 69, ploughs into Goolwa’s Live N Let Pie bakery