Driver careers through bank window injuring two

A YOUNG man drove his car into a branch of Bank of Cyprus in Nicosia just before 1pm yesterday injuring a 63-year-old man on a motorcycle and a 66-year-old male customer inside the bank.
The motorist veered off the road onto the pavement after hitting a bus sideways seconds earlier, police said. According to reports, the car was travelling from Kaimakli to Nicosia on Stasinou Avenue, side-by-side with a bus when the two vehicles collided, causing the car driver to lose control of his vehicle.
He first hit the 63-year-old who had come out of the bank and was ready to get on his parked motorcycle, dragging him with the car through the bank’s window.  The black saloon came to a stop only at the queue counter but not before hitting the 66-year-old who was in the queuing area.
The two injured men were taken to Nicosia General Hospital but according to a police spokesman their injuries were not life-threatening. Police are investigating the cause of the accident.

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