Video: Elderly woman drives SUV into Massachusetts mall

Elderly driver enters 2nd floor of Massachusetts shopping center

Video shows a vehicle on the second floor of the South Shore Plaza mall in Braintree, Massachusetts, on August 18, after an elderly driver went through an automatic door, reports said. (Credit: @Thary17 via Storyful)

An elderly woman driving an SUV found herself on the second floor of a Massachusetts mall Thursday morning and it was captured on video.

Shoppers were shocked to see a Lincoln MKX SUV slowly making its way past stores inside South Shore Plaza located in Braintree, Massachusetts.

Video shared on social media showed the SUV stopped in front of a clothing store as a person can be heard saying, "Like, she literally has to drive from all the way down there to over here."

FILE - Freeze frame from video showing an SUV being backed out of a Massachusetts mall Thursday morning. (@ghettova via Storyful)

One witness told local news media that she was on her phone when she suddenly heard a female security officer screaming, "Stop! Stop! Stop!"

"I was walking around and talking to someone on the phone at the time when I heard the security lady start screaming, ‘Stop! Stop! Stop!,’ and by the time I got up to the window, I realized there was a Lincoln SUV," Squishables Store Manager Stacy Bartko told 7News Boston.

The driver, who was only identified as an elderly female, stopped the car and was evaluated by police and a mental health clinician at the scene before she was transported to a nearby hospital, according to 7News.

The vehicle was able to make entry into the mall only because a safety bollard was missing from in front of the entrance due to a recent accident, police told local news outlets.