A SHOPPER jumped to safety when a car crashed into a store yesterday.

The woman suffered minor cuts and bruises after the vehicle smashed through the glass doors of Woolworths, in Richmond, North Yorkshire, at 1.15pm.

Police said the female driver of the green Suzuki Baleno lost control of her vehicle and it rolled down the cobbled street into the store.

The driver, believed to be a local woman, was unhurt.

The shop front was boarded up soon after the incident and the store remained closed all day.

Electrical engineers were called to repair a damaged electricity cable.