A CAR has smashed through glass windows at Australia Fair shopping centre this morning, sending people leaping for their lives.

A 87-year-old female driver was treated at the scene by paramedics following the crash at the Marine Parade entrance of the Southport centre just before 11am.

CCTV footage shows the car ploughing through a car park entrance before travelling about 10m through a shopping centre corridor forcing shoppers to run as it bounced off walls.

The silver Volkswagen crashed through a bollard and the entrance from the underground car park, travelled through the lobby and came to rest when the car hit glass doors leading out to Marine Parade.

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Queensland ambulance’s Patrick Berry said CCTV footage showed up to six people had to jump for their lives as the car crashed through the entrance.

media_camera The scene at the Australia Fair entrance. Photo: Nicholas McElroy

Miraculously no major injuries have been reported. But the ‘shaken’ female the driver was taken to Gold Coast University Hospital with minor injuries.

Witness Jackie Bothe said a woman was straightening into a car park when the car accelerated into the medical centre.

“It looked like she kept speeding up,” she said.

“She flattened a metal bollard in front of the building.”

media_camera The damaged car at the scene. Photo: Scott Fletcher

“The sound of the screeching and the glass smashing was terrible.”

Leon Smith was also in the centre at the time of the crash and said he ‘heard a loud bang and the building certainly shuddered’.

“By the time I turned around security and first responders were rushing past,” he wrote on the Gold Coast Bulletin Facebook page.

The cause of the crash has not been determined as yet. Police are investigating the crash now.

media_camera The woman crashed through the entrance from the underground car park, travelled through the lobby and came to rest when the car hit glass doors leading out to Marine Parade. Picture by Scott Fletcher