At least eight people were injured, including a pregnant woman, after a pickup truck veered off Highway 101 and crashed into a Mill Valley shopping center Tuesday.

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The truck went out of control, crashed through the chain-link fence along the highway, crossed the Redwood Highway frontage road and barreled into the Strawberry Village Shopping Center at freeway speed.

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The truck hit several vehicles parked outside the In-N-Out Burger restaurant. At least one of the vehicles was pushed into a different car.

In all, six vehicles were damaged, including the pickup truck, said CHP Officer Andrew Barclay.

Medics took eight patients to Marin General Hospital or Kaiser Permanente Medical Center. The pregnant woman and another patient left the scene in critical condition, according to emergency broadcasts, while the other six patients suffered relatively minor injuries.

All of the patients were adults, said Southern Marin fire Battalion Chief Matthew Barnes.

The damaged vehicles included a minivan rented by a Canadian family visiting California for a wedding on Saturday. One of the family members, Jeff Brant of Prince Edward Island, said the family had just visited the Golden Gate Bridge and stopped to change and get food at the In-N-Out.

Brant’s wife suffered a minor injury. Just minutes before the crash, Brant’s father-in-law and daughter has been standing in the truck’s eventual path.

“This could have been so much worse,” said Brant, who turned 45 on Tuesday.

His father-in-law, 69-year-old David McKenna, said: “It was pure bedlam.”

Wendy Van Houten, who works at the AAA office near the crash scene, said she and her colleagues heard an explosive sound and saw a cloud of dust where the truck went through the fence.

“I thought a bomb went off, that’s how loud it was,” she said.

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Van Houten estimated that the expectant victim was about six months pregnant. “Hopefully she’s OK,” she said.

The conditions of the patients were not available Tuesday evening.

The CHP was investigating the crash.