A woman who suffered leg injuries after a car slammed through the front of a Papamoa shop has undergone five hours of surgery.
An elderly man parking at Papamoa's Fashion Island lost control of his car and careered through the front entrance of CentaMax Superette on Gravatt Rd on August 2.
CentaMax Superette owner Rupinder Gill said his wife underwent five hours of surgery at Tauranga Hospital on Saturday to repair her leg, which had been broken in three places.
The doctors had told him she would be fine but her leg would take up to six months to repair properly.
Business at the store had been slower since the accident but he was hoping it would pick up again once the front entrance was properly fixed within the next four weeks.
