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Dramatic CCTV footage shows the moment a car mounted the pavement and crashed into a Darlington business.
The footage shows a red car travelling from Brunswick Street towards Borough Road around 11.20am on Tuesday (October 6).
It hits a bollard before smashing into the front of T.W.S Security and Funky Fidgets.
Funky Fidgets owner Melissa Brunskill was livestreaming upstairs when the crash happened, while staff and customers were inside the shop.
Screen grab from the CCTV footage of the crash (Image: PROVIDED)
She said: “I had staff downstairs and a team with me upstairs on live and we heard a bang. We rushed downstairs and called 999. We had some customers in a mother and a teenage boy who were in when it happened.”
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One of the workers at Funky Fidgets said: "It could have been so much worse. We usually have a huge queue out the door."
Screen grab from the CCTV footage of the crash (Image: PROVIDED)
A Durham Police spokesperson said: "At approximately 11.20am this morning, emergency services were called to Borough Road in Darlington following reports a vehicle had left the carriageway and collided with the front of a retail premises.
"There are no reported injuries but damage to the building is being assessed."
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Police cordoned off Brunswick Street at its junction with Borough Road following the crash.
Images from the scene showed part of the wall inside T.W.S Security's offices had bowed after the crash.
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Funky Fidgets Shop Ltd has since closed the store until further notice.
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A statement on Facebook said: "Please note due to a traffic incident involving our shop front the store is closed until further notice."
A North East Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "We were called to a road traffic collision on Borough Road in Darlington at 11.12am on 6 October 2026.
"We dispatched an ambulance crew and a clinical team leader who treated one patient at the scene."