A woman injured when a car crashed into a beauty shop in Albany has died, city police said Friday night.

Charlene Diane O'Connell, 55, who lived on Kennel Road in the Albany area, was a customer in the Perfect Look Salon in the Albany Fred Meyer shopping center Friday afternoon when a car came crashing through the window. She was taken by ambulance to the hospital in Corvallis, where police said she died about 5:30 p.m.

Shortly after the accident , an employee said the woman was a regular customer who was getting a shampoo, and she had been trapped between the car and a sink under debris.

Police said the car was driven by Margaret Zipp, 79, a resident at the Mennonite Village.

Police spokesman Capt. Eric Carter said officers investigating the accident said there was no indication of speed or anything else, just that the driver evidently hit the gas instead of the brake.

"A tragic accident," Carter said.

Judy Goeller was getting ready for a haircut at the salon when she "heard a great big crash, and glass and brick went flying everywhere."

Goeller, 67, of Jefferson was there along with several others when the white, four-door Toyota Camry drove over a short, decorative brick wall out front, crashed through a plate-glass window and hit the opposite wall of the salon, pushing it ina couple of feet.

Goeller suffered a small cut to her right knee.

The driver was not injured. The accident happened about 1:15 p.m.

Driskill said the "car just came in and just pushed me and my station out of the way... It was really scary."

She said "people were screaming and trying to figure out what they should do first. We couldn't get the water to turn off."

Wendy Armstrong, 41, of Sweet Home was shampooing a client when the crash happened. "I was thinking I can't believe the bricks didn't stop her," she said. "It was all very surreal. I talked to the driver and she was vocal, verbal, and she apologized. She just had this shocked look on her face."

Beverly Givens, 75, of Albany also was in the salon.

"I was just getting ready for a haircut and I looked up because of the noise and saw breaking glass," she said. "This same thing happened to me in a beauty parlor in Albany about 40 years ago."

Fire officials said Zipp was intending to mail letters at the Postal Connection. Her car suffered little damage, and Albany Police Officer Robert Hayes was able to back it out of the building.

Once Zipp's car was removed, firefighters shoveled debris from inside the shop into a garbage container.