A DRIVERLESS car rolled downhill and crossed a busy Poole road before smashing into the front of a popular sandwich shop.

One of the shop’s owners thought she was “a goner” when she saw the runaway vehicle heading towards the shop as she worked.

Miraculously, no one was hurt despite the car crossing two lanes of busy traffic near Poole’s Ashley Cross.

Hayley Francis, who owns the Dorset Sandwich Company on Bournemouth Road with husband Greg, was working at the sink when the drama happened at around 9.15am on Tuesday.

“I was here on my own. My husband had just left five minutes before and took the sandwich van out,” she said.

“I saw this thing coming towards me and thought I was a goner.”

The maroon Volvo hit the front of the shop, smashing the large window.

Hayley said: “Everyone was having coffee two or three shops down.

“I crawled my way out through the gap between the door and the pavement.

“I wanted someone to calm me down but they were all laughing and taking photos because we’re right next door to a sign saying ‘Have your eyes tested now’.”

She said the driver had turned up on the scene minutes later. “She said she parked outside the Premier shop and it rolled downhill,” she said.

“How it didn’t hit anyone or any traffic I don’t know. People are crossing that road all the time.”

Police cordoned off the road while debris was cleared and the car was removed.

They said the car was registered to a man from Taunton in Somerset and confirmed there were no injuries.