A SHOP worker narrowly escaped with her life after a car ploughed through the plate glass window at the front of a carpet store.

Rebecca Farley had been working on a display next to the window just moments before the white Peugeot 309 careered into Oliver Carpets in Ramsgate.

The car, which was being driven by an elderly man and it is thought was carrying an elderly woman, left the road and hit the window at around 11am on Monday.

The 76-year-old driver, from Ramsgate, was taken to hospital suffering from chest injuries. A 62-year-old woman who had been shopping in the area was also taken to hospital suffering from injuries to her legs.

Miss Farley was in the shop with two customers but the trio escaped unhurt. She said: “I’m lucky to be alive. I had been arranging samples in the display in that part of the shop only a few minutes before.

“I had just sat down to have a cup of tea when the customers came in. Next thing I know there was a loud crash and the car had come through the front."