No one was seriously injured, owner Julie Potter said.

Emergency crews and firefighters responded to 144 Back St. to help with cleaning debris and removing the Lincoln from the building.

Potter said one person was in the car, and there were clients and employees in the salon at the time of the incident.

“Today didn’t start out the way I planned it to,” she said.

Mirror photo by Cati Keith Dave Alexander and Christie Yingling of Servpro Ebensburg help to clean up debris after a car crashed through the front of the building at Tame Your Mane salon at 114 Back St. in East Freedom.

Thankfully no one in the shop was hurt and the driver denied medical treatment for minor injuries, the owner said.

Potter said the driver was an older woman who is usually in their salon two times a week and was there to get her hair done just like any other day.

She said one of her hair stylists was lucky to not be at her station because the vehicle came in where it is located.

“I was working at a station and heard what I thought sounded like a bomb went off — in that split second she was already through,” Potter said.

She guessed that the driver was pulling into a parking spot and hit the gas pedal instead of the brake.

About four solid wood workstations inside the salon were taken out by the car, but Potter said the Lincoln seemed to come out without even a dent, though one of the front tires came off the rim, according to photos taken in the aftermath of the accident.

“We could have lost a lot, because normally all of those stations are filled in the morning, and it just happened that we had some cancellations this morning, which opened that up,” she said.

There was a little dog that was in the path of the car and ran away just moments before it crashed through the building.

“Then when you watch the video, it is twice as traumatizing and you realize how short life is,” Potter said.

She is really glad that no one was hurt, and said it is just a matter of repairing the damage to get back up and running.

Potter said the salon was closed Monday to clean up and have a temporary wall installed so they could continue business today.

She is hoping to work from the stations that are left.

Then they will bring in someone to assess the damage and figure out what they need to do to get everything back to the way it was.

Potter is not sure how long it will take to repair, but with them being completely booked, they will do what they can to make sure they don’t get way behind on client appointments.

The official cause of the crash is unknown.

Mirror Staff Writer Cati Keith is at 814-946-7535.