TWO women were killed and several people were injured and trapped after a lorry careered through the front of an estate agents, as we went to press yesterday.

Horrified onlookers watched in terror as the lorry, loaded with bricks, appeared to lose control on Amersham Hill in High Wycombe and smashed head-on into Aitchisons at around 2.48pm.

The scene in Easton Street was chaos and firefighters had to pull the lorry driver from the wreckage after it smashed into the shop and demolished the shop front.

Police on the scene said that two people had been killed and many more were injured and trapped.

Two members of staff including partner in the firm, Royston Davis, were in the shop as the lorry careered through the window and into the middle of the estate agents.

Mr Davis was said only to have escaped with his life because he was sitting at a desk when the lorry struck, but his assistant was swept away with the rubble and had to be carried out on a stretcher along with a visiting client.

Ritchie Carroll, from Gerrards Cross, was just yards away when the accident happened and said that the scene was chaos.

He added: "I just saw a van spin round the corner and heard the man driving the lorry beeping his horn.

"The van was knocked out of the way and the lorry just smashed straight into the estate agents. I have never seen anything like it. People were screaming but I don't even remember where it was coming from.

"A man in a suit walked out of the shop covered in dust just holding a phone with the cord just dangling from it."

Amersham Hill had to be cordoned off and the lorry appeared to have smashed into several cars on the way down.

Photographer Dave Marriott was in the High Street waiting to turn left into Amersham Hill when he saw the lorry travelling at speed crash into the shop.

He added: "No one knew it was happening, it all happened so fast. People were running everywhere screaming."