By Cam Lucadou-Wells
CLINICIANS at a Hampton Park medical precinct say footpath bollards are needed after a car mounted a parking area’s kerb and ploughed into a pharmacy’s display window.
The large four-by-three metre window was shattered and shelving pushed across the shop floor by the vehicle at Nova Pharmacy off Stuart Avenue shortly before 7am on Monday 17 October.
A 46-year-old Hampton Park woman is expected to receive a summons for careless driving, a Victoria Police spokeswoman said.
Olivera Doder, manager of the neighbouring Southern Cross Medical Centre, heard the impact as she arrived at work.
Ms Doder said the middle-aged driver was shaken but not injured by the crash.
It seemed the driver had pressed the accelerator instead of the brake, but was unable to explain what happened.
“She was just coming in to have a blood test this morning.”
Ninety-degree parking spots are separated from the pharamacy and neighbouring clinics by just two metres of paved footpath.
‘Julie’ of the adjoining Dorevitch Pathology said pedestrians and patients needed the protection of bollards.
Her clinic had been crashed into by vehicles twice in her memory, she said.
Pharmacist Greg Clements said it had been 15 years since the last incident, but backed a call for protective bollards.
Mr Clements said the damaged window was expected to be secured some time that day.
