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October 26, 2012 Elderly Woman Accidentally Rams Canoga Target Back Door At the Canoga Park, California Target, an elderly woman driving a new BMW 3 series down the ramp from the garage towards a T intersection with a stop sign. But she blew through the stop sign and "threaded a needle" by crashing straight through the narrow emergency doors and drove deep into the electronics section, injuring two shoppers, one critically. Police and the woman's son were leaning towards pedal confusion. None speculated it could have been a deliberate attack.
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CANOGA PARK, Calif. (KTLA) -- Two shoppers were injured when a driver plowed into a Target store in Canoga Park on Friday.
The crash was reported at 5:28 p.m. at the Target store in the Westfield Topanga Mall at 6800 N. Owensmouth Ave., said Erik Scott of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The car, driven by a 72-year old woman, crashed through a pair of service doors and stopped 50 feet in the store, in the electronics department, Scott said.
According to police, the woman was coming down a ramp and she failed to negotiate a [stop sign and] turn [facing a wall]. Investigators said she drove straight through the doors, never hitting the brakes. A 29-year-old woman suffered serious head....
The crash was reported at 5:28 p.m. at the Target store in the Westfield Topanga Mall at 6800 N. Owensmouth Ave., said Erik Scott of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The car, driven by a 72-year old woman, crashed through a pair of service doors and stopped 50 feet in the store, in the electronics department, Scott said.
According to police, the woman was coming down a ramp and she failed to negotiate a [stop sign and] turn [facing a wall]. Investigators said she drove straight through the doors, never hitting the brakes. A 29-year-old woman suffered serious head....
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/bmw-crashes-target-store-3-hurt-article-1.1193839
California woman, 72, slams her car through the rear service door of a Target store, injuring herself and two customers
The driver accidentally drove her BMW 50 to 60 feet, into the store's electronics section. Police do not yet know whether she was impaired.
Comments (10)BY CHARLIE WELLS / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2012, 5:53 PM
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Workers later rolled the vehicle out of the store and into the parking lot, a move that reportedly startled shoppers.
A 72-year-old driver hit the Target Friday night when she plowed her car into the department store.
The elderly woman’s black BMW sedan rammed 50 to 60 feet through the rear metal doors of the Los Angeles-area Target and into the electronics section, injuring two customers and the driver.
The accident allegedly happened when the driver was heading out of the Canoga Park mall and did not stop at a three-way stop sign, investigators told a local news station.
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A 72-year-old driver accidentally drove her car through the narrow rear service entrance (center) of a Target store in Canoga Park, Calif.
See the stop line - if you choose to not stop and do the required left or right turn, you can aim right at the doors. This was not a random mistake.
“But if you look at how the street is laid out, there is an intersection right before those doors where one can see how an individual can drive straight through and actually thread that needle and go through those doors," he said.
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