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Surveillance video caught a driver as she crashed straight through a smoke shop in Fullerton on Wednesday morning in an accident that police said was due to the motorist driving under the influence.

At about 3 a.m., a white Mercedes-Benz pulled into the parking lot in front of Cobra Smoke Shop & Vape Store on Euclid Street. The driver seemed to lose control of the vehicle as it accelerated into the glass storefront, through the store, and out the back, according to the video footage. Two individuals — the owner in the back of the store and a part-time cashier — were in the store at the time of the incident but were not injured, according to Fullerton police.

“In the video, you can see it seemed like she stopped and then she put her hands up and then the car just accelerated,” Seja Karim, 22, the manager of the family-owned smoke shop, said when describing the footage shot by a closed-circuit security camera. “I think she hit the gas instead of the brake and ran into the whole store.”