SAFEWAY staff treated one of their customers to a cup of tea after he accidentally drove his car into a store window.
The accident happened at about 4.20pm yesterday. An elderly man drove his Vauxhall Vectra car through the window of the shop in Haxby, York.
No one was hurt in the accident.
Safeway press officer Lynsey Sizer said the car had gone through the window of the main store, but had not damaged any of the stock.
She said: "We can't speculate as to how it happened, but our assumption is that he must have accelerated instead of braking."
She said the man was "quite shaken up" after the incident, and store staff rallied round with a cup of tea.
She added: "The store team handled it brilliantly. Thank goodness it was nothing more serious."
Police, who were called to the accident, said the car was recovered from the store last night.
The broken window is now boarded up, and it is not yet known how much it will cost to replace.
North Yorkshire Ambulance paramedics attended, but the driver was not taken to hospital.
Updated: 10:23 Thursday, February 26, 2004
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