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A car crashed into the front of the River Oaks Tower in the 3700 block of Kirby Thursday afternoon.

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A car crashed into the River Oaks Tower Thursday afternoon.

Vick Shapiro, 73, apparently mistook the gas pedal for the brake on his Audi.

"I was amazed that such a chain of events could take place outside of Hollywood," Shapiro told 11 News.

Shapiro and his wife were actually heading to the River Oaks Tower for a doctor's appointment when the accident happend.

Rebecca Kramer of the Lupus Foundation of Houston said that she and her coworkers heard the crash from their 7th floor office.

"We all thought it was the elevator dropping," Kramer said.

REBECCA KRAMER

A worker inside the building shot this picture of the car inside the lobby.

"You could feel the building shake," said another woman who works in the tower.

When they ran downstairs they saw the car inside the fountain in the tower's front lobby.

The fountain probably stopped the vehicle from driving into the nearby elevator shaft.

Shapiro crashed into the tower after getting into another minor accident outside the building.

He collided with a BMW and police cited him for failure to yield.

Fortunately, no one was hurt in either crash.