A 74-year-old woman drove into the lobby of a Massachusetts funeral home Saturday while a service was underway, authorities said.

No one inside the funeral home was hurt.

Police and firefighters were called to the Waring-Sullivan Home of Memorial Tribute in Swansea around 8:50 a.m., Sergeant Mark Foley said.

The Fall River woman had just dropped off someone at the funeral home and was going to back into a parking space, Foley said.

It appears the woman mistook the gas for the brake and accelerated over a curb, the sergeant said. The woman then struck a column outside the building.

Foley said the car continued to accelerate through the funeral home’s front doors and into the lobby.

Two people were near the lobby but were able to escape injury. Other people were attending a service were in a different part of the building.

The car struck a gas fireplace, causing a pipe to break. Authorities shut off gas to the building.

“Obviously, this could have been a disaster,” Foley told MassLive.

The woman was taken to a nearby hospital for minor injuries. The crash remains under investigation.