Horrifying footage shows car ploughing into shop front with huge hole left in wall just weeks after opening

Horrifying footage has revealed the moment a car was ploughed into the front of a shop, leaving a gaping hole in the building just weeks after its official opening.

Lisa Openshaw, owner of the boutique clothing store Pretty Little Closet, said she is 'struggling to process' the incident after the wall of her store, which opened just weeks ago on September 7, was sent crumbling to the ground in the major crash on Saturday night (November 2).

Police and paramedics were called to the collision at the property on Tonge Moor Road in Bolton at around 11.10pm. A driver, caught on CCTV footage, appeared to wipe out a litter bin before smashing through the wall of the building.

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Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, Lisa said: "I've just opened. My phone was dead last night and all of my friends were trying to get hold of me.

"My friend works at Skn, the business above the shop, and her mum was there and called my partner's mum. I just flew down straight away and didn't get there until about 12.30am.

"The car had already been taken. You could see straight through the wall, there was a big hole and it had tape all around it."

CCTV footage shared with the M.E.N shows the moment the blue Seat Ibiza vehicle mounts the pavement before hitting a litter bin and careering into the wall of the shop.

Bricks were sent tumbling to the ground, with a street sign also left damaged as well as a wheelie bin. Lisa claimed a car nearby was also written off in the collision.

Lisa, who began selling clothes on TikTok after the Covid-19 pandemic, took the plunge to open up her store in September this year, but now says she has 'lost everything'.

"I was