Tauranga crash: Car smashes through Greerton dental lab window

A silver Mazda Demio smashed through the front window of a business on Chadwick Rd in Greerton. Photo / Supplied

A car has smashed through the front window of a family business in Tauranga.

Greerton Dental Laboratory owner Peter Scott was with a patient when he heard glass breaking about 3.45pm.

Peter Scott with what’s left of his front window after a car smashed through it. Photo / Samantha Motion

“It was loud ... I said the ‘F word’.”

His 7-year-old grandson, William Scott, who was in a back room, said he heard “falling glass” and was the first to see the silver Mazda Demio with its nose through the window of the Chadwick Rd business.

No one was injured.

Scott, 77, said the car shunted a cabinet and the unmanned reception desk.

The unmanned reception desk was shunted in the crash. Photo / Supplied

He was also grateful his latest grandchild, aged 6 months, was not in their usual spot in a pram beside the reception desk.

The impact dented the metal window frame and knocked a long-forgotten CD out of the stereo.

Scott said the vehicle’s driver was a teenage girl who appeared to have been trying to park.

The hatchback shattered the front window of Peter Scott's business. Photo / Supplied

He said his business, which makes dentures, had been on Chadwick Rd since 2015 and he had seen a neighbouring business experience a similar incident.

Scott and his family were in good spirits this afternoon as they waited for a builder to come and board up the broken window.

Greerton Business Association chairman Cameron Templer was grateful no one was seriously hurt.

“The Greerton Business Association will support the team ... in any way we can.”