An elderly woman was hit by a car while she was at an ATM in Waihi this morning.
A witness who was on the opposite side of the road said he heard a loud bang, looked up to see a grey car suddenly coming off the footpath outside the ANZ Bank.
Local cafe owner, Tom Ransom, was sitting on a seat having a smoke when the incident happened.
"I saw the woman fall to the ground, I ran over, yelled to the bank to call 111. The car was backing off the footpath. I grabbed the passenger door and yelled at the driver not to go anywhere."
He then went to the woman where other people were already starting to help her.