A car veered out of control, smashing into a northwest Houston business, and then the driver calmly walked next door for a haircut, Local 2 News reported Friday.

The driver was trying to park next to the "Hair Say" salon on West T. C. Jester at 18th Street around 1 p.m. when she told police her brakes stopped working.

Her four-door Lexus smashed through the glass front door and mowed down a 20-foot section of glass, wiping out the waiting room of a vacant business and landing with the back bumper 6 feet inside the business.

Paramedics responded and checked her out, and they told Local 2 Investigates she promptly walked next door for her scheduled haircut before police even arrived.

Medics and police described her as a woman in her 70's but HPD officers at the scene declined to release her name.

"It felt like an earthquake," said Lupe DeLeon, who was having her hair done a few feet away when the car crashed through next door.

Shirley Green, of Arkansas, who was also in a stylist's chair, said she heard the loud crash and tried to stay still until everyone could figure out what happened.

The car tore down a wall for the waiting room of the "Next Level Acting Studio" business, leaving the floor littered with sections of wall, shattered glass, and magazines from the waiting room.

No one was inside the business.

The woman identified by police as the driver said she had nothing to say to reporters, and hair stylists at the salon said she would not come out of the building until news cameras were gone. She then left through a back door with relatives.

Before that, she could be seen in a stylist's chair near a hairdryer, answering questions from police officers.

No citations were issued.

No damage estimate for the business was available Friday afternoon, but the acting studio owner shouted into the hair salon, mentioning all the damage left behind.  He then returned to supervise the cleanup inside his shop.

The car was carefully driven backwards out of the shattered business before being towed away.