A woman in her eighties has been taken to hospital after she drove into a McDonald's restaurant in Northland, along with a woman pedestrian she hit while driving into the fast food outlet.
Emergency services were called to the scene just after 9.40am today after the elderly woman's Subaru Impreza accelerated into the front of the McDonalds restaurant in Kamo.
Acting Sergeant Bill Jordan, of Kamo police, said the woman was trying to avoid another car that was reversing out off a parking spot in front of McDonalds when her foot got stuck on the accelerator.
Mr Jordan said the woman is believed to have hit a female pedestrian, believed to be in her teens or early 20s, before smashing into a window, leaving shattered glass spread over the floor and a dent in the building.
The elderly woman was taken to Whangarei Hospital with minor injuries and in shock, while the younger woman was also taken to the hospital with a relatively minor hip injury. Police are investigating the cause of the crash.