JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A car crashed into the Zinke Hair Studio on Town Center Parkway at the St. Johns Town Center on Saturday, pinning two people and shocking onlookers.<\/p>\n
Images show the black BMW resting completely inside the salon, trapping Stephen Gotham Jr. and his wife, Aubrey Simpson Gotham, who were checking out after getting haircuts.<\/p>\n
Both were taken to the hospital, where they were treated for lacerations and rib, neck and knee pain before being released, they said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was pinned between the front of the car and the reception desk,\u201d said Stephen Gotham. ” I couldn\u2019t move, and I had to yell at the lady [driver] to back up in order to just be able to get unpinned from between the car and the wall.”<\/p>\n
Gotham said someone else helped free his wife as he was struggling to get back on his feet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe this was just a miracle [that we weren\u2019t injured more seriously],\u201d Aubrey Simpson Gotham said.<\/p>\n
Stephen Gotham has yet to receive a police report of the accident, and the couple still doesn\u2019t know why the driver plowed into the store.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was extremely frightening, traumatic,\u201d Aubrey Simpson Gotham said. \u201cWe feel terrible for the Zink Hair Studio, as well, you know. They had significant damage to their business … It was just a horrible, horrible incident.\u201d <\/p>\n
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