PHOTOS, VIDEO: SUV crashes into west Little Rock restaurant; driver taken to hospital

A 70-year-old woman who was meeting her sister for lunch "blacked out" and barreled through the side of the Cracker Barrel in west Little Rock about midday Wednesday, police say.

The Arkansas woman was driving a dark red Honda CRV in the parking lot of the restaurant, located at 2618 S. Shackleford Road, spokesman officer Steve Moore said.

As she pulled into a parking space around 11:45 a.m., she "blacked out" from a medical issue and drove through the northern wall of the building, he said.

The SUV rammed the gift shop portion of the store, not the more-populated dining room, and no one was hurt, Moore said. The vehicle took down an exit door and panels of siding around it.

The driver was taken to a hospital to be checked out, he said. She was the only person inside the SUV at the time of the wreck.

After the crash, onlookers snapped photos as employees maneuvered around the knocked-over shelves and scattered toys.

Tori George was less than four hours into her first-ever shift at the restaurant when she heard the initial “boom,” she said. The wall started to creak, then crack.

“As soon as I heard the wall, I moved,” she said.

George ushered two toddlers away from the corner of the gift shop as the CRV emerged between a stand of stuffed animals and a wall of scented candles.

George, who said she’s been an EMT for a decade, ran to the driver, who was still conscious, and told her to put the SUV in park. A doctor dining inside the restaurant came over and took the woman’s pulse. A few other people lifted the debris to get her out of the vehicle, she said.