Shocking footage emerges of pregnant woman hit by out of control driver
Footage has emerged of an out-of-control ute accelerating into a medical centre full of people, but not before hitting a pregnant woman who had been about to walk inside.
The mum-to-be was heading into the Balcatta Radiological Clinic in Perth for her eight-week scan when she was struck by the ute, which launched out of the car park.
Footage captured from multiple angles shows the driver carefully edging into a parking spot right outside the medical centre entrance, before it’s believed they hit the accelerator and hit both a bollard and the woman.
The car struck the pregnant woman and a bollard before crashing into the medical centre. Image: 9News
The car then crashed into the centre, narrowly missing the patients and staff inside but rattling them and other bystanders nonetheless.
“I haven’t actually heard a noise like that before, it was huge,” Sandy Meikle, a witness, told 9News.
“(There was) a lot of screaming and a lot of jumping,” Meikle said.
The pregnant woman, who is in her 20s, was taken to Royal Perth Hospital and another woman was treated for shock.
However, workers at the medical centre said this isn’t the first time someone has crashed into the building.
“I’ve actually seen it happen before, someone drove through the building before, it’s happened twice,” a security guard said, with staff adding that the unlucky bollard had been installed to prevent such incidents from happening.
Police questioned the elderly driver, who was uninjured, at the scene.
No charges have been laid as of publication.
Watch the shocking footage here.
Images: 9News