Pedestrians have a narrow escape as car hurtles backwards along pavement

This is the moment a driver mistakenly accelerated instead of hitting the brake pedal, narrowly missing three pedestrians as it reversed up the pavement.  

CCTV footage shows a silver car in Hoan Kiem in Hanoi, Vietnam, backing down a street.  

The silver Toyota all of a sudden speeds up as it mounts the pavement shortly after 11am on May 11. 

The vehicle narrowly misses a woman wearing a traditional hat before it crashes into and knocks over three motorbikes. 

Footage from May 11 shows a silver car in Hoan Kiem in Hanoi, Vietnam, reversing down a street

The motorbikes are all standing next to a tree outside a line of shops. 

Footage from another angle shows how close the car was to hitting the pedestrian in the hat, and two other women on the same stretch of pavement. 

One was crouching on the ground by a shop, apparently sorting vegetables into bags, while another, wearing a baseball cap, was walking towards her. 

The silver Toyota all of a sudden speeds up as it mounts the pavement, narrowly missing a pedestrian 

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The car crashes into three motorbikes and a tree, which is outside a line of shops as the pedestrian runs forward to get out of the way

But it is the pedestrian wearing the hat who has the narrowest escape. 

She stays calm, lifting one of her arms up to get it out of the way of the moving vehicle. 

As the car hits the bike and tree, she dashes forwards away from it. 

No one was injured in the accident, according to local reports.

There are two other pedestrians nearby when the car crashed, with one in a baseball cap walking in the same direction the car was reversing

The car did not collide with any pedestrians and reportedly no one was injured in this accident