Town shop hit by car
A SHOPFRONT in Hinckley was left in ruins after a drink driver smashed into it.
The vehicle battered through a low wall and shattered the two front windows of 75 The Barber Shop, on Castle Street.
It also smashed into a lamp post outside the shop as it swerved off the road.
The crash happened at 10.45pm on Friday September 22, with clients at the Pestle and Mortar pub, two doors along from the hairdressers, the first to hear the collision.
Sue Summerill, who owns the pub, was working on the night.
She said: “There were about 20 or 30 people in the pub.
“Quite a few of them went outside to see what had happened, and I was able to give the driver some water.
“They were bleeding from the mouth, but they could walk alright.”
There were four other passengers in the car when it ploughed into the shopfront.
Police and the ambulance service attended the incident, and one of the customers from the Pestle and Mortar was able to apply first aid to those injured.
Two of the barber shop’s owners were able to come out on the night and assess the damage.
Co-owner Lisa Farrant, 33, said: “Somebody called us to say a car had crashed into the shop.
“I couldn’t believe it. The impact had taken the window out, as well as the brickwork underneath the window.
“We are just really shocked.
“I’m told that the driver was not badly hurt. But it could have been a lot worse.
“If the car hadn’t collided with the lamppost I