An elderly woman was uninjured after she accidentally crashed her car into the front of two stores in downtown Barrington, shattering the glass windows, police said.
The Barrington Police Department and Barrington Fire Department responded around 11 a.m. Friday to the 100 block of West Northwest Highway for a report of a vehicle crash.
Emergency crews arrived and found a car that had crashed into a strip mall building on the southwest corner of Route 59 and Route 14.
Barrington Police Chief David Daigle said the 2023 Honda Accord struck the front of 113 West Northwest Highway and 123 West Northwest Highway.
The Honda hit the steel support beam in between the two stores — Suppes Inc. and Ben E. Salon Spa.
The building did not sustain structural damage but the glass windows shattered.
The driver, a 77-year-old Fox River Grove woman, told officers she was attempting to park her Honda in front of Ben E. Salon Spa, Daigle said.
The woman said her foot slipped off the brake and onto the gas pedal, causing the vehicle to jump the curb and hit the building.
While the initial 911 call described the crash as the Honda driving through the building, the car did not fully drive through the building and the vehicle sustained minor damage, Daigle said.
No injuries were reported to anyone inside the stores or to the driver.
No citations or charges were issued to the 77-year-old woman driving the Honda, Daigle added.