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John Badman|The Telegraph Alton firefighters look at the damage to the Mr. Nice Guy smoke shop at 2801 Homer Adams Parkway in Alton Tuesday after a motorist crashed through a plate glass window and drove inside.

John Badman|The Telegraph The uninjured driver of a Hyundai Tucson that crashed into Mr. Nice Guy in Alton is escorted out by paramedics.

John Badman|The Telegraph Alton firefighters do some cleanup after a Tuesday morning crash, the car still deep inside the store.

John Badman|The Telegraph Alton Police photograph the Tuesday morning crash scene at Mr. Nice Guys smoke shop after a car drove into the building.

ALTON — No injuries were reported Tuesday morning when a motorist crashed into an Alton business.

At 10 a.m. Tuesday, Alton firefighters were called to the Mr. Nice Guy smoke shop at 2801 Homer Adams Parkway in Alton after a motorist turned the business into a drive-through, crashing a Hyundai Tucson through a plate glass window and driving it inside, hitting glass casses filled with glass pipes and other items.

The 80-year-old driver told police her foot slipped from the brake to the gas pedal while she was trying to park. She escaped injury.

An employee inside the store at the time of the crash was shaken up by the incident but also was uninjured.

Alton firefighters swept up some of the glass Tuesday morning, but cleanup was going to be a big job for the store which claims to be the "Biggest Head Shop in the World." Mr. Nice Guy was closed the rest of Tuesday.

John Badman is a 1982 graduate of SIU-Carbondale, with a major in cinema and photography and a minor in law enforcement administration of justice. He has worked at The Telegraph in Alton full-time for 39 years and has been named the National Press Photographers Association's Region-5 Photographer of the Year six times.