Linda Thompson and her fiance were walking out one set of doors at a North Topeka grocery store as a motorist crashed through the other doors into the store.

It occurred about 9:30 p.m. Monday at the Dillons grocery, 801 N.W. 25th.

"What is that noise?" Thompson recalled saying. "You could hear the glass breaking."

Topeka police Sgt. Scott Conklin said the motorist, a man, had been shopping at Dillons when he exited the store into the parking lot. The heavy wind had pushed a shopping cart into his car, damaging it, Conklin said.

The angered man picked up a cart and tried to throw it through the doors to the store or a window but was unsuccessful, police said.

The man then got into his black car and drove it through the doors, "causing substantial damage" to the business, Conklin said.

Police think the car also sustained substantial damage, Conklin said.

Thompson said the car broke through two sets of doors at the west end of the business, near the pharmacy and the frozen foods area. Thompson was leaving the store through the east doors.

There were quite a few shoppers who witnessed the car crash, and some chased the vehicle after it drove from the store and was eastbound in the parking lot toward N.W. Rochester Road, Thompson said.

Thompson, who with her fiance were pushing their groceries, said she saw the car zooming away but couldn't describe it.

The motorist hasn't been arrested as of Tuesday.