TWO women were lucky to dodge a car that slammed into the window of a Ballarat cafe yesterday afternoon.Gemma McGrath, a waitress at Coffee by Design, was sitting on a couch inside the window of the Sturt St business.The 19-year-old Ballarat woman described how she narrowly avoided the crash."I turned around and looked and the car was coming at me so I ran," she said."I don't even know what made me look up."It was the second time a car has crashed into a Sturt St cafe this month.On November 7 a car hit a pedestrian who received minor injuries.It then smashed the front window of Nibble and Natter.In that incident a window of the Bean Barn cafe next door was also broken.Yesterday a silver Suburu Liberty sedan, driven by a 72-year-old Ballarat man, mounted the curb and crashed into the window about 3pm.It knocked over a wooden post before forcing tables, chairs and barriers into the window.Some chairs were knocked several metres.A passerby, who did not want to be named, said she was shocked at how close the car came to her."I was just walking past and literally felt the wind from it," she said."I didn't even see it; I just heard the noise and I didn't want to look back."If it had been a second earlier I would've been in front of it."Ballarat Police examined the crash scene.The cafe was closed for the rest of the day, but was expected to re-open today.