DOZENS of shoppers were forced to flee in terror from a Hampshire supermarket yesterday afternoon when a car smashed through the store's main entrance.

One elderly woman was left badly injured and others were lucky to escape unhurt after the car drove into the Sainsbury's store in Winchester.

The car, a white M-reg Peugeot 306 was being driven by widowed 83-year-old great-grandmother Doris Morgan from Meadbrook Gardens in Chandler's Ford.

She explained: "I started the car and I couldn't get my foot off the accelerator.

"It seemed to be stuck under there. There must have been something on my shoe or the accelerator, I don't know, but I have never had that before."

Asked what she was thinking at the time of the smash, she said: "I was thinking nothing, I just thought how the hell can I get my foot on the brake?"

Mrs Morgan pointed out that she had been driving since 1948 and had never had an accident before. She said she was looking forward to driving again.

Witnesses to the horrific crash described seeing the vehicle bounce off a parked car before hurtling into the sheet glass doors of the Badger Farm store, ripping the metal frame from the walls.

The car hit a shopper inside the foyer before apparently colliding with an empty photo-booth - narrowly missing a children's ride in the hallway and stopping just short of the packed Starbucks coffee shop.

Emergency services rushed to the scene shortly after 2pm.

The injured woman was immediately taken to Winchester's Royal Hampshire County Hospital, as Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service helped Mrs Morgan from the wreckage.

Luckily, although there were only half a dozen other shoppers in the hallway, no one else was injured.

The supermarket was immediately evacuated by concerned staff, but soon reopened to the public with people allowed in through the back door.