Five people have been taken to hospital after a car careened into tables on the footpath out the front of a Fitzroy pub.
A man, in his 80s, lost control of his car, hitting another vehicle which smashed into a power pole before running into the tables outside the Provincial Hotel.
The smash occurred on Johnston Street, near the corner Brunswick Street, at about 5.45pm on Sunday.
An Ambulance Victoria spokeswoman said all five people were being treated for minor injuries at Melbourne hospitals.
It is not known whether the people being treated were on the footpath at the time of the accident, or were passengers in the car.
Three fire trucks also attended the scene.
A Metropolitan Fire Brigade spokesman said power lines had been brought down onto the road.
“That was our biggest risk,” he said.
Victoria Police spokesman Senior Constable Adam West said police were talking to the driver.
Traffic was blocked from both ways as the wrekage was cleaned up.
A spokesman from the Provincial Hotel said staff were assisting police and could not comment further at this stage.
This story first appeared in The Age
