Customer 'lucky to be alive' after 4WD smashes cafe frontage

Key points

• Three people were injured, two seriously, after a car crashed into the front of the Shearwater Food Company near Devonport in northern Tasmania on Sunday evening. Police say a 26-year-old woman remains in hospital with serious injuries, and a staff member is in hospital with serious but stable injuries.
• The driver, an elderly man, was treated at the scene and did not need hospital care.
• Police say early indications suggest the crash was not deliberate, though its cause remains under investigation.