Through the glass - Car crashes German Motor Sports showroom

By GAIL OBER, LACONIA DAILY SUN

GILFORD – Some customers of German Motor Sports just can't seem to find the bay doors.

For the second time in as many years, a person has crashed a car through a portion of the building and caused damage to the exterior.

At 8 a.m. Wednesday, a woman driving an BMW X5 thought she had put her car in park when it appears she hadn't. The service manager said as she leaned over to get her registration from her glove box, the car rolled through the showroom window, breaking the glass and causing minor damage to a structural beam.

The woman was shaken up but unharmed, and one of the cars in the showroom sustained some minor scratches from broken glass.

On April 31, 2015, a BMW Z3 coupe was pushed through the cement block side of the building after a man parked in the Wendy's Restaurant parking lot next door accidentally put his car in drive instead of reverse. He lunged forward over a low grass median strip and struck the BMW, which crashed through the wall.

The owner of that BMW was not in the car at the time and the man driving was unharmed.

The wall took a beating.

Gilford Police Officer Curtis Mailloux stands next to the fender liner that came from a BMW X5 that drove through a showroom window Wednesday morning. (Photo courtesy of German Motor Sports.)