Car ploughs into Lake Macquarie's The Moderne haberdashery narrowly missing person inside

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In a case of timing being everything, a group of women were running five minutes late for their weekly knitting catch-up at The Moderne Haberdashery and Fashion shop at Swansea when a high performance car ploughed into it, sending trinkets everywhere.

A car has narrowly missed hitting people after crashing into a haberdashery shop in central Swansea.A knitting club has narrowly escaped being inside a shop when a car crashed into it in the New South Wales Lake Macquarie region on Friday morning.

Fire and Rescue NSW Swansea commander Iain Turner said the woman accidentally pressed down on the accelerator when trying to move her husband's car."It was quite a high performance car and she mounted the curb and ended up in The Moderne Haberdashery and Fashion shop in downtown Swansea," he said.He said a knitting club was luckily running late for its weekly meeting inside the shop."They were five minutes late, and five minutes late may well have saved their lives.

A social media post said the shop would be closed until further notice due to unforeseen circumstances.

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