Video segment with footage from the scene and interview with store owner Kong Cheng.

Woodland Hills Cleaners Board-Up

At about 2:50PM a car hit a woman and then dragged her 5 year old child through the plate glass window of  Woodland Hills Cleaners at 22882 Ventura Blvd.  Both mother and daughter were injured, the daughter more seriously.  The clerk inside the cleaners was unhurt.  The woman and her daughter were airlifted to the hospital.

LA Daily News writes:

WOODLAND HILLS – A woman and her young daughter were injured after a car struck them and crashed through the storefront window of a dry cleaner Saturday afternoon, police said.Los Angeles firefighters used a helicopter to airlift the two to Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA. The young girl, whose injuries were considered the more serious of the two, was listed in stable condition. Officials said she was 4 or 5 years old.

The identity and condition of the driver, described by witnesses as an elderly woman, were not immediately available.

“The woman had mistaken her gas pedal for her brakes,” said police Sgt. Arlene Hennessey, with the Los Angeles Police Department’s Valley Traffic Division. “She was stopping for the mother and daughter …. Next thing you know, she’s taking the mother and daughter for a ride on her car through the plate glass window.”

The dry cleaner is located in a strip mall at Ventura Boulevard and Fallbrook Avenue.

Visit the CBS 2 article to watch a video report.  I wish they’d start allowing people to embed their videos like pretty much everyone else does nowadays.

The LA Times adds that the girl is in serious condition:

A 5-year-old girl was in serious condition today after being struck by a vehicle that plowed into a dry cleaning store in Woodland Hills, authorities said.

If anyone knows anything else about the incident please leave a comment with details.  Thank you.