HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — A police officer had to be checked out at the hospital after a vehicle crashed through a gas station building Wednesday morning in downtown Huntersville.
Authorities told Channel 9 the Huntersville police officer was shopping inside the Cashion’s Quik Stop at the corner of Gilead and Old Statesville Road when a woman’s foot accidentally slipped off the brake and hit the gas, sending her Hyundai SUV through the wall.
The officer was taken to the hospital as a precaution, but officials said he was not seriously hurt.
The woman behind the wheel was not hurt, and no charges have been filed at this time.
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